Mille Lacs Fall Troll 10-3-09

  • roger_k
    St. Cloud, MN
    Posts: 98
    October 5, 2009 at 12:06 am #1288622

    With limited weekends to get to Mille Lacs in October because of four wheeling and hunting trips planned, my buddy Andy and I decided to try and make the best of this weekend, given that mother nature has not been very good to us over the past week. We decided to hit the north shore after we got to the cabin and got the heat going and to our surprise the rain had quit and the winds died down enough to make fishing manageable, and with 55 degree water temps, we gained a little confidence. We ended up fishing for 7 hours with 15 fish to show, including 6 box fish, a 32″ and 40″ northern, which was just under 14.5 lbs., along with a couple 24, 25″ walleyes. The fish are definatley putting on the feed bag as every fish that came to the boat had some nice bellys on them. Overall, not a bad nite, and it looks like it should just get better as the weeks go on.






    wilson1984
    Posts: 302
    October 5, 2009 at 12:09 am #806879

    Great report Nothing like fishing the big pond in October

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    October 5, 2009 at 12:31 am #788318

    Looks like you had a great night and YES the BEST is to come shortly.

    Thanks for sharing

    booner
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 61
    October 5, 2009 at 1:24 am #806883

    It’s going to be rough waiting until Friday to get there!

    cleland
    Posts: 1
    October 5, 2009 at 2:58 am #806905

    those are some nice fish there to bad we had to leave early on sat. night

    Brian Robinson
    central Neb
    Posts: 3914
    October 5, 2009 at 4:14 am #806908

    Not bad at all. I’ll sure be watching this topic as the month progresses, and I know I’ll be wishing I could have made the trip this fall.

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    October 5, 2009 at 7:41 am #806917

    ROGER,
    Welcome to IDO, and very nice first post with pictures and everything, Nice job, and Congrats on some nice Walleyes.
    Where did you go out of??
    Jack

    Chris Meisch
    Ramsey, MN 55303
    Posts: 720
    October 5, 2009 at 11:56 am #806920

    Great Job! We were out but had very limited success.

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    October 5, 2009 at 1:00 pm #806938

    Heck of a first post Roger! Welocme to IDO.

    Exactly what I have been waiting to hear!

    Any certain speed seem to work best?

    crossin_eyes
    Lakeville, MN
    Posts: 1379
    October 5, 2009 at 3:19 pm #806968

    Roger,

    Great first post. This is the ray of hope that I’ve been looking for in advance of our trip to the pond this coming weekend!
    Thanks for chiming in with your 2 cents worth. Literally, too since I see you got $ .02 worth of fish bucks for your 1st post!

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    October 5, 2009 at 3:27 pm #806972

    Welcome aboard! I knew someone out there would bump into a few nice fish. Good job.

    -J.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13310
    October 5, 2009 at 5:15 pm #806994

    Nice fish and welcome to the site. Looks like I should of spent more time on the north shore. I did hit one spot up that way last night and caught a 19″er right away. But then had to go. Think Ill be spending more time there this weekend.

    roger_k
    St. Cloud, MN
    Posts: 98
    October 5, 2009 at 11:08 pm #807092

    Thanks guys, we definately had to work for the fish.
    Jack, we ended up going out of the red door because of the wind.
    Lip, the speed that seemed to produce the best for us was 1.8-2

    matt_grow
    Albertville MN
    Posts: 2019
    October 5, 2009 at 11:20 pm #807095

    Now I’ve seen it all. If it isn’t ol Roger!

    Men,….Don’t let this guy fool you!! This soon to be brother in law is about a 10 year lurker

    Good to finally see you posting and catching fish at that!

    roger_k
    St. Cloud, MN
    Posts: 98
    October 6, 2009 at 4:23 am #807150

    Lol, hey come on, its only been… well, close to 2 years, and to set the record straight, I don’t have alot of backround with computers, so for now, thats the excuse I’ll use .

    crossin_eyes
    Lakeville, MN
    Posts: 1379
    October 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm #807190

    Roger,

    Any particular lures or colors that worked best for you?

    Thanks!
    Mike

    jakeh
    White Bear Twp
    Posts: 997
    October 7, 2009 at 3:20 am #807460

    Nice job!

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