Home Forums Fishing Freshwater 2023 open water season

Opening weekend, of walleye season.

8 mile quad ride to buddies cabin;



Came across these, on the way out Saturday afternoon.



Weren't there, 4 hours before, on the way in !

2 limits (8) of Walleye, 2 crappie & 2 perch, Saturday;



Sunday was 2 limits of walleye.

Saturday night;



Sunday lunch, at camp;



Sunday dinner;



Monday, Family dinner, with the kids & partners;





Sux to be us !

Staying with the fish / salad theme !



1 More meal to go, yet !

Lemon pepper & garlic butter basted;

Strong work!

As you know we don’t have a “season” our water doesn’t solidify during the winter, so if they’re biting we fish. We’ve been into the “eyes” since early April, just now really getting into the hot bite. Crappie spawn was a bust, cold nights hung on later than normal and they never came in shallow to do their thing. We did manage to catch and eat 75 or so but never got anywhere close to catching a 37 fish limit on any one day.

This evening was a good one. Me and my sidekick hit the ramp at about 3:30 the second time, first time we made it down there and had left his float coat at home so had to backtrack. We got onto a big school of sandbass within minutes of leaving the ramp. He was having fun so I let him catch for an hour or so before we dragged up and headed for greener pastures in search of saugeyes. After we found them it didn’t take long for him to fill my 6 fish limit and we peeled out to go eat supper by 7:00.

Final body count for this afternoon was 29 sandbass, 8 saugeye, and one incidental channel cat. Pretty good little outing at our lake that sits 2 miles south of the house.

Beauty Mate !!

37 Crappie is quite the limit !

The MNR labeled them an invasive species up here.

Then gave us a huge 10 fish limit !



Lil' fella is growing up !

Walleye season up here, closes on the 15th of April every year, till the 3rd Saturday in may, to protect the spawn.

That, I can agree with !

Awesome work and nice pictures, as always.

Between being sick, slammed at work and my fishing partner dealing with kids travel soccer, I haven't been out much yet. Hoping to change that soon.

We hit the water at sunup this morning and churned out another 6 fish limit by 10. Went to town and had coffee with the guys before going home and cleaning fish. Boy had a bang up idea to eat some for lunch. So we got the grease hot and fried up a pair. Outstanding as usual.

And about that 37 crappie limit. I’ve always thought that they must have just drawn a number from a hat to settle on 37, really a strange number. But it’s been that way since forever, my dad said that was the limit when he was a kid 60 years ago. My fish biologist buddy says it’s impossible to fish them out in this area due to the climate and forage available so it might as well be 100 a day or like our state fish the Sandbass and no limit. But let me tell you from experience, you get on them and have three boats with 3 guys in each boat and limit out on 10 to 14 inch fish. You’ll swear you’re never cleaning another one if you live to be 101, until next spring when they start biting again! Me and my Grandad cleaned 288 one night, it sucked big time. But the next weekend when we had a big fry we forgot about the cleaning.

Just finished my first run of the year up in NW Ontario Berens river country. Never seen such low water. Not really any big sows for the group, 44” the biggest. Walleyes as crazy as ever, solid measured 22” average. Only 27” for the largest.

A few females still holding eggs, and plenty of males discharging milt yet. Weather improved daily. No lakers on this run.

Osky