Well finally its the first day of fishing season (Lakes). I had to take a days vacation ( Ha, tomorrow I'll have to do two days work). Called for sun and cloud and 11 to 14 degrees. Well , there was no sun and lots of cloud. A good stiff breeze over the 43 degree water kept me pretty damn chilled. Lots of boats on the water and we saw very few people catching fish. We caught 4 fish ( 14", 12", 11", 9.5") and thought we were doing pretty good. I knew there are lots of bigger fish, but when we docked there was a guy cleaning a bag of 17 fish ( i'm not sure how many were in his party) but they had some pretty nice fish. I'd love to know how and what they used to catch them. We caught 2 on rapalas, 1 spinner/worm and 1 bottom fishing. Fish were slow to take. The fish are all nice and red inside and should be very good eating. I have attached a few pics. I am planing on going fishing Thursday PM, so I'll let you all know how that goes.