Fished Mille Lacs on friday and saturday. Didnt have the same results as last weekend. Hit the mud friday morning when I got there with some small perch and a 12″ eel pout to show for my mud working efforts. I have been fishing the deep edges of the flats in 30+ FOW marking alot of fish but the bite was just not steady like last weekend so I decided to move in and try the rocks for the afternoon. When I start my quest for fish on Mille I find a flat or hump or rock pile and start shallow with my hole drilling and work my way out to the deeper water. I then hole hop all the hole looking for fish and dropping the jig down to fish that I mark. After I check all the holes I go back to the one that had the most active fish and set up and fish. Well the rocks in about 27FOW produced as much as the mud in 30FOW on friday which was a bunch of small perch. On saturday we decided to try something a little different and fished a gravel to sand transition after stopping in for a bite to eat and chat with the local resort owner we were on our way out to a 24-30 gravel to sand transition and I started my drilling, the active fish I found saturday were in 27 FOW and they were active. I had a first time problem ever ice fishing Mille Lacs and that was having 2 rods down at once. I set out my dead stick with a smaller fathead tail hooked to a demon jig and started getting my jigging rod out and baited up and noticed my bobber was gone, by the time I got to the rod the fish had already had off with my minnow so I put another minnow on sent it down the hole and started again with my jigging rod and bam my bobber was down again and once again by the time I set the jigging rod (more like tossed) down the bobber was floating back up the hole so I reel up to re-bait and send it back down. This went on 3 or 4 more time before I finally gave up on trying to get the jigging stick baited and down and just concentrated on the bobber which finally paid off with a 9″ perch make his way out of the hole. After another couple of perch were caught the bobber bite slowed so I finally was able to get my jigging rod baited with a spoon full of waxies and down the hole which was immediately greeted with a hungry perch. This bite window was bewteen 7:30am and 10pm then things died, the fish were there but they just were’nt biting so after moving around 3 more time I found myself on the rocks in 27fow catching more perch on the jigging rod. About 2pm I decided to catch the sundown bite out were the morning started strong but only ended up with 1 more fish. It wasnt a spectacular weekend of fishing but the bigger perch are starting to make an apperance and the perch bite should gradually be getting better over the next few weeks 
Did anyone else see the 2 shacks that were burning on friday? All I could see was billowing smoke from miles away but heard that the 1 burnt to the ground in a matter of minutes. That was to the south west of Hunters Point, the other shack was to the north of Hunters.
cheers 
