We were up on mille lacs last weekend and I thought the smb fishing was off a bit due to the mayfly hatch but that may change by this weekend. Try the rock piles near Cove Bay and Isle in the SE corner of the lake. It is close to Izaty’s and the DNR is nice enough to mark most of the rock piles for you.
For tackle choice, try a wacky worm or green tubes. Good luck and let us know how you did.
Right out from Izaty’s is a reef with some big boulders, that can be a good spot. As for baits tubes and senko’s, jerkbaits, and topwater.
Was on Mille Lacs July 1,2,3 and fished smallmouth. We had the best luck on topwater lures and tubes with 1/8 jigs heads.
The fish we located were on rocks and we just searched the marked rock piles. We fish from Isle to Cedar Creek access and west to Spider island.
Seemed that most rocks structure has a few smallmouth.
Most fish were 18″ to 21″ with only a couple 15″, which surprised us as we thought the smaller fish would have been more common.
Good Luck
We tried the humps on the North end on 7/7, also found that the MayFly hatch was an issue. But on 7/8 we fished the rock pile off Rainbow Island (Indian point). Caught lots of 17-18-19 and one 20+ Smallie. Our pattern was to dead stick 4in wacky worms and small topwater chuggers.
As others have mentioned just about every rock pile that tops out at 4-10′ FOW up there has the potential to hold at least a few smallies. My favorite way to quickly cover water and check out which rock piles are holding fish is to start by casting shallow cranks and my go-to lure is quickly becoming the Rapala Scatter Crank in Carribean Shad and Hot Mustard colors. I also know several very avid bass anglers who have been doing very very well on the West side of Mille Lacs casting both Scatter Minnows and Scatter Shads in perch colors along the edge of weedlines. Spend a few hours hitting several different rock piles and weedlines with cranks make a note of which ones were holding fish and come back and hit them again with tubes either in green (imitates a perch) or brown/pumpkin (crawfish) to see if you can entice some of the more finicky eaters 
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