Minn. Detroit Lakes fishing report weds.

Looked and felt like perfect weather at the Long Bridge bridge on detroit lakes. Overcast cool breeze blowing onto the cove i was wading, lots of lilly pads and submerged grass and deeper of the pad edge. I threw kietech swimbait, tr senko, crankbait, and padcrasher frogs.

In 2 1/2 hours i caught a total of 0 fish. I had 2 blowups on the frog but they missed the frog, i dislike blind fish. The good thing i got out of that cove was my waders didnt leak so they are fixed.

Went to another lake, threw out a 956 senko from the bank and first cast caught a dink. I walked the bank pitching a tr senko with a 1/4 oz pegged bullet weight and in the submerged weeds. I got nothing from the submerged weeds , last year this area was much deeper now its much shallower. So i turned around and fished the lake on the other side of the road.

This side has pads, lots of pads and submerged weeds but again it is much shallower than last year.

I didnt know if there would be bass in the shallow waters so i tossed out the same senko i was using and i ended up dragging it across the tops of the pads and it would fall into a crease in the pads and i would pull it out and continue dragging it untill it fell into another hole in pads.

Well it fell of a pad into the water and it got hit and i had a tug o war with that fish to the point where i had to point the rod at the water, grab the line and pull him out including the mess of weeds. After that my reel went to heck and is now torn apart. It was 3.5 lber so i thought keep doing what i am doin and dragged it across the pads, let it fall and i caught 2 more bass.Caught nothing in the weed beds, all were hiding under the pads.

So i put on a frog and the pads were like floor tile, not much water exposed for a frog to take a dip in and outside the pads they just wernt hangin there. I did have 2 blowups in the pads but the pads so thick they never had the frog in their mouth.

Wife caught 3 bass and a meaty pike all on tr senko but overall the bite is slow. The panfish people showed up and soon left as the bite was just not happening for them either and this was now 7.30 pm.