Headed east across the border tomorrow for opening day. Going to hit Makwa. Mostly going to see if we can get on some big pike in the shallows may try for some walleye as well. Boats all ready to go, it's going to be good to get out.

Was a good day, felt darn good to get out on the open water man got to tell yah. We didn't take bait with us today it was more of a scouting trip. We just ran an assortment of Raps all day trolling and checking structure. Hit a few pike nothing big maybe 5# being the biggest.

Darn nice lake wild structure, bays, inlets, long shallow flats dropping off to deep rock holes a very interesting lake. I am really looking forward to getting back there in a month to get into the walleye fishery it looks very promising.

4 fish limit on walleye there as well I can see a couple good feeds coming home this summer,, yum, yum..

And yah ice is off Cold Lake been wide open for two days now.

We launched from the private launch north of Loon Lake just north of the weir,, I forget the name of it,, Pine something ??

Thx Mike awesome stuff. We went over to steele narrows and I really liked what I saw over there lots of interesting structure on that part. I think I am going to concentrate on that side as you said it looks like the loon lake side could get busy with boats running around. Some nice long steep rocky banks on that side I can't wait to work over with a jig and minnow rig.

Ya there are some definite cliffs on the Steele narrows side. We have caught a lot of eyes there suspended feeding on juvenile whitefish.

Brandon, for the most part the pike are 3-5 pounds with the odd 10 pound fish and maybe 1 or 2 in the high teens/low 20s every year.