Well, I just don’t know where to begin with this report? It was just one of those nights a walleye fisherman realizes why it was he was born! 
First off, I sincerely want to thank Calvin Svihel for taking me along last week as his “net-man”. He was kind enough to show me the ropes out there and it paid off tonight! So Cal, thanks again for finally getting my lazy butt out on the big pond after all these years! 
Tonight I was joined my Father-inlaw, Max Zahler. Normally Max isn’t a cold-weather type of guy, but after coaxing him out on to pool 2 last weekend and having him actually live thru the experience, I thought “what the heck”, and asked if he’d be interested in a full-moon foray to Mille Lacs. Max and I launched at a very busy Terry’s on the west side about 5 pm. We began our trolling with #12 husky-jerks in Tennesee Shad and Firetiger. Well, it didn’t take long before we found the walleyes. I started us off with 4 eaters for the box and one nice perch as a bonus-fish. I noticed Max wasn’t getting any fish on firetiger, so we tied-on a gold colored #14 husky-jerk and he was “off to the races”, boating several of his own personal bests on walleye. His first one was a nice 23″ fish, followed by successively larger fish! Not to be out-done, I also tied on gold and from that point on we were into some very nice large walleyes! We mainly trolled St. Alban’s bay in about 6-8′ of water, lures running 50-75′ back of the boat. We also spent some time in Garrison bay where we found fewer, but larger fish! The moon was full and it appeared that many other guys were taking advantage of it and boating some nice walleyes of their own. 
Here’s my largest for the night, and my all-time largest Mille Lacs Lake walleye, measuring 29″ on the dot!
I encourage anyone who hasn’t tried this fall trolling to get up there and give it a try….it is a ton of fun! 
Figured we had a good outing so we packed it in and loaded the boat shortly after midnight.
