Wow - no one has said a tube or floating frog. Prolly toss a tube off the bat then mix it up from there. I also took a couple of days off from work to have a 5 day weekend. Woo!

Is no one going to throw a hard jerk-bait-bait?

I probably will. Likely be chasing brown fish, at least in the morning, so a Wild Shiner or Pointer will probably be in the mix pretty early on...especially since the water's still probably going to be on the cold side.

Cheers,
Rob Kimm

I throw a lot of spinnerbaits, so i'll definently try those, but i'm trying to expand my arsenal so i'm gonna try a lot of new techniques this year. I like to throw a lot of the plastic frog style baits(zoom toad, yum buzzfrog, skrikeking rage frog) so I might give those a shot that day. I've got most of the new lures I want picked out at work, so i'm planning on buying them on saturday. Now I just have to figure out what I'm gonna all have rigged up and ready to go.

Hard (pointers, rogues) or soft jerkbaits is usually what I start out with.

It really is going to depend on what the water temperature is at that time.I am leaning towards a Sluggo, or possibly an Ogur worm,an 11 or 13 floating Rapala on a spinning rod, and probably a spinnerbait,maybe a large bladed single spin.Plastics will be on hand, as well as jig combos-jig and pig,or jig and craw.

would anyone throw perhaps a chatterbait of any sort?? I was thinking of trying that first

I like to throw chatterbaits when there is a lot of grass in the area and when the fish are in post spawn.

I would be throwing a spinner bait, soft plastic jerkbait over the weeds, or a white tube if the fish were still in the beds. At least those are the things that come to mind first for early season.

early season i would stick with tube. Ive been using watermelon green and pumpkin green tubes on pool 6 this past week with good results. I use spinners by weeds later on in the season along with scum frogs in the lilly pads. just my $0.02

I'm with lunker. I'll be throwing mostly a soft jerkbait as my search lure and will be ripping ripe females off of their beds with an assortment of tubes. I might throw a sexy shad as well for a bit. Last year I got on an amazing soft jerkbait bite off the get go on opener but this year might be different. I'll have to check temp when I get there. It might get a little messy but it's gonna be a good show.

I forgot all about the soft jerkbait, that is a great opener bait. A few years back i won a tournament on it with over 24+ lbs. A week after opener!!!

thinking about x-rap, tube, spinnerbait, a stick bait.

I'll be about an hour north of Mille Lacs for opener so I might be looking at fish still being a little deeper. If this is the case I'll have a football jig, drop-shot, and some deeper diving suspending jerkbaits. However, if there up on flats like last year you can catch them on pretty much whatever you want.

I will be starting the years off with a Mr. Twister Comida!