My weekend report

We fished for 6 hours Friday. It was a beautiful slight wind day. We hit Doe island and Hawkbill point for smallies. Didn’t do very well. We threw tubes,cranks,top water and live bait. This area of the lake had alot of boats around it fishing bass and musky. We trolled no mans land for 1 1/2 hours with deep tail dancers.(nothing) We marked tons of bait fish out around the mud. We seen a few boats on top of the Blue Jug and that was it. Some in our group fished sloppys Friday night from 9 to 1:00 am. 2, walleye 26″ and one missed bite. Another boat went to Rocky Reef. 1, 8″ walleye and a small perch.
Saturday was windy,rainy and cool. I fished from 8:30am to 11:30. I was driving across hawkbill reef when my hat flew off for the second time. Picked it up and looked at my graph and was marking fish. I was in 21ft of water. Tried anchoring and bobber fishing. Caught perch. Anchor was having a hard time keeeping me in place. I should have drifted with the sea anchors or trolled some cranks but deciced to get out of the wind/rain. It was pretty slow fishing. I didn’t see one boat pull in a fish. There was a small group of boats fishing the east side of hennipen island. Looked like they were anchored. Otherwise everyone was moving around alot.

Thanks RonZych for the report. In regard to trolling cranks out around the mud, where was the majority of the baitfish in the water column? Last time I was out there, all of the baitfish I marked was up high (upper 10 feet).

I was able to get out for an hour and a half Fri. got a 19 inch smallie another one about 14 inches and a perch around 10 inches. Sat we pulled cranks all day from 5 am till 5:30 pm out near 7 mile we got a perch, 27” and a 24. Really slow but we had the top up on the boat we were dry and did not have much else to do so we kept at it. Water temp was at 70-71 degrees. Fall is not that far away.

The bait fish were all over the water column. 10ft off the bottom and up. Friday there were 100s of loons every where! I guess that was a pretty good indication as to the amount of baitfish.

Mille Lacs is one of the stops when Loons migrate.They wont go away hungry.