Water Temps and Level Please!

We’ll be heading up there for our annual trip in 1.5 weeks. Wondering what people were seeing for water temps and water levels around opener?

don’t know if this helps, but St. croix bay port was 56 degrees water temp.

headed up to what river would be helpful….

If you read the headline, it says upper red lake

David Blais wrote:

If you read the headline, it says upper red lake

Haha! Just saw the water temps and levels,my bad..

So now that everyone knows that this post placed under the Upper Red Lake forum is about Upper Red Lake….. Has anybody been fishing??

Buddy fished it yesterday. Once they found the fish it was bam bam bam like usual. This is only the 2nd or 3rd year I have missed opener there since it reopened

Tamarack River was 45 deg. It was hit or miss for the campers at Big Bog State Park. A lot of us did not get any significant time on the water Saturday due to the cold temps. and stiff breeze. I fished the river out of the wind & waves and caught two in two short trips. Others did better and worse. Some fish off the docks at the campground. Sunday Morning on the lake just out from the river channel I picked up another to make a nice meal. The wind was still making occasional 3 ft. swells. Did not see many nets go into the water. I’d say fishing was worse than normal. The wind blew until just before sunset Sunday.

thanks don, the one factor that really changes Red is that west/ northwest wind.

This years opener was a eye opener as mother nature decided to unleash some strong winds out of the north north west with bone chilling temps . Getting on the lake was possible but it had to be miserable if you were out there. Frank and the crew did well in the river and landed enough fish to feed there group two big fish fries for the weekend. They have been coming for years and taking home fish is not a big goal but getting enough for there fish fry and fish boil is what its all about.
Wayne, Jonny boy my son and I did go out sunday as I wanted to send john home with 3 fish. It was not the best weather to fish but we managed to land a 15 fish in the couple hours we fished before we ran out of minnows. Our boat Imagine That needed a new battery this year as the original one finely gave out after 12 years of service. All the family are coming up memorial weekend. Other then that our cabins are wide open this year. I’m a little surprised as I expected we would have quite a few calls this year. jake was up last week Monday and part of Tuesday. We had to battle mother nature a bit but did manage to land 8 elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappies. Jake did not keep any and I kept 3 for the hammer and I to have a fresh fish dinner.
On a side note getting on the lake with our 20 foot tyee is was manageable in the wind on sunday but I did bottom out twice and that always drives me crazy. I’m not sure why the markers are so close together as there not even a channel there. Coming in with the wind I ended up going on the right side of the markers with no problem. I would not go to the right of the markers going out though as I be leave there are some rocks scatter about to the north