Mississippi Gold...
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:57PM 
The time has come, and the water is flowing. Did you miss it? The last few days have been beyond stellar. Leading up to this point I was wondering if this years run would even happen. Thoughts of the flooding high waters of a year ago rushed my memory and I figured this year would be even worse. While this flood may still occur, and will likely do so soon, one thing is for certain - it didn't happen before we got a few great days on the water.
The last 3 days I snuck away to get my boat in the water for an extended period of float time. Friday was the first day on the water and it couldn't have gone any better. A couple of friends named Mitch and Bails joined me for the madness. It exceeded their expectations, and for that matter, mine as well. It took us a matter of about 3 minutes to locate the fish and start catching. We hoisted several small fish before we realized we were in dink land. I headed to a past honey hole and we resumed our catching. Only this time, they were bigger. Before our perfect evening was over, we caught quality and quantity. I managed to take first prize with a dandy of swine just after sunset. It wouldn't have gone any better if I would have scripted it out myself.
Saturday was more of the same but with a different group. Subtract Mitch and add Dusty and Dingwall to the mix. Par for the course, these boys didn't skip a beat. 
In fact, they brought a little more action to the table and matched the performance of both Bails and myself. The only difference on this day was that we couldn't find a monster to take a picture with. Most of our fish were in the 16 to 20 inch range with about a half dozen between 20 and 23 inches and the biggest fish only pushing about 4.5 pounds. Not that we were complaining, but that kicker fish is always cool to top off a perfect day on the water. Our fish to remember on Saturday was not the biggest walleye of the day, however a giant sauger that had a belly full of future river runners. She was a dandy, and Bails was the lucky angler on that catch.
Sunday afternoon gave us another spectacular day of Minnesota spring weather. Water temps jumped slightly and you could see the response in the fish. Again we caught a pile of them, but this time I noticed more females showing up. Yep, the big fat bellies that we look forward to so much this time of the year. We only had a couple of hours of afternoon daylight to enjoy it, but this time it was Phillip and Mike's turn to join the madness. They all did their share to hoist the fatties, and Phillip took largest fish honors with with one of his first fish of the 2010 open water season. It just doesn't get any better than that.
Overall it was a picture perfect start to the open water season. The weather was fantastic and the fishing followed along perfectly. Everybody got in on the ation and we caught fish in every size range. While this action was great, it is likely to be short lived. The conditions are fast changing and the high waters are inevitable. Once she breaks loose, you'll be lucky to find a safe launch to put your boat in. Get out today, or maybe tomorrow, because after that it just might be too late. Until next time, keep on livin' the dream!
Travis Frank - Travis@mnbound.com
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