It started at 530 am leaving the dock on the west side of the with my friend Doug (normally a bass guy – but Mille Lacs now has him hooked). We decided to race to 7 mile to see if we could be the first boat. We had done well there the previous day on top of the flat by catching some biggerfish and catching 4 very nice 18″ eyes. The wind was out of the NW at about 5-10 mph. We arrived on the flat and began searching for fish. None were on top as the locator was completely empty. 
We then moved to the eastern edge and right on the break the graph lit up, the fish were stacked on both the northeast and fart east portions of the flat on the break. We set up our drift and bang got I got the first fish. I caught it on a leech and a 12 foot snell. It was the biggest fish of the day 26.5 inches. 
Doug wasn’t far behind as he soon set the hook on this nice fish.
Then it was my turn again.
It was pretty much back and forth between Doug and I for about three hours. We worked the far east portion of the flat all by our self for two hours uninterrupted. 
We would get one fish per pass, sometimes two. There were other boats on 7 mile drifting on the top of the flat to the west of us, none closer then 200 yards. We had our own little honey hole that was producing some nice fish. The key was to engage the motor and keep the boat moving from 30 – 27 feet up and down the break line. It was a combination drift and the back troll to deeper water. Doug (the bass guy) used crawlers while I used leeches. Both were successful.
The highlight of the day was when the wind picked up for about a 1/2 hour. The graph lit up with fish moving to the edge. It became VERY rough with three to four foot waves. The good thing is that fish were also responding. The drift started the same as others (bigger waves of course and a little more tricky boat control), but waypoint 90 produced again. I dumped line and so did Doug, and within a minute we had a double. Doug looked at me and said, “your on you own kid”. We successfully netted both even with a line tangle. I gave Doug the honors of presenting us the 22″ and 25″ Mille Lacs cookie cutters. Mine was the bigger of the two of course. 
The second to last fish of the day was this beauty caught by Doug, while it was only 24″ in length, the girth was unbelievably impressive. It was also tagged by the DNR. I proudly reported this tagged fish. As you can see in the background a few more boats moved in. Our little honey hole now had lots of company, and that is to be expected.
All in all we ended up catching 12 walleyes over 23″ Not bad for about 5 hours of fishing. Doug is now spending more time chasing eyes on the pond then combing the weeds for big buckets. 
but could not get them to go. We rigged, pulled spinners, crank baits, and slip bobberd it and only came up with a few fish. 