Bass Season officially opened a little over a week ago here in Minnesota. I was able to get out for just a few hours with John Haynes on Lake Minnetonka. The boat ramp was packed by 6:00am. Lots of guys cruising shallow water looking for fish on beds. Things started a little slow for us. We moved in and out checking the deeper water for post spawn fish and up shallow for fish on beds. the deeper water only produced one small fish. Fish seemed to be up shallow but not very hungry. I managed one nice fish on a white swim jig casting to shallow wood.



We made a move to a flat that we thought would have some spawners on it. The fish were there but the wind was blowing on it pretty hard and clouds had the light bad for sight fishing. We couldnt see the fish until we were right on top of them and spooked them. After another short fish or two we moved to a 6 foot flat and managed to finally find a small pod of fish. I caught a few 14 inchers out of the school before calling it a day. Not a great day but it was nice to just go fishing.