Minnesota monday my opener

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Went out on monday afternoon bank fishing the detroit lakes area and threw my line in at 3:30. It was sunny and 75 windy south east blowing onto shore and water temp at 51. Started out with a 3/8 white spinner with a paddle tail and got bit and hauled in a nice 5 lb female about 10 feet from shore in 3 ft of water. I wasnt burning the spinner, i let it sink to the bottom and then reeled in just nice and easy and didnt have to worry about weeds because the lake is still way behind on weed growth.

 

I walked the bank and caught 3 more within 30 minutes and 2 pike. I was having so much fun that i didnt need the waders and decided to put on a chatterbait all white and caught 4 more 2-3 lb. I was running the chatter alongside the shoreline through old bullrush stalks on a sandy flat area crashing through it a bass right at the shoreline jumped at the lure just as i had the blade out of the water and i landed him.

 

When the sun went down the wife went for crappies and i started cleaning up and stowing gear and then started to fish using a big jig and a 4 inch gulp minnow as i wanted to catch a walleye so i casted out my lighted bobber and waited while the wife was catching crappie and puttin them on a stringer we ended up not bringing any home to eat.

 

Why you ask? because she slipped on the pea gravel next to the culvert while she was putting a fish on the stringer and as she was falling she dropped the stringer into the water and if dissapeared into the the culvert under the roadway. She searched with a light both ends of the culvert but the stringer was lost. It was now 11pm and my walleye never appeared and the crappie bite stopped. Got home at 12:30am.