Ten Mile Lake (Cass County)

Hello Everyone. I have been reading this site for a while and I was wondering if I could ask for some help. Every year I go to Ten Mile in Cass County, but I never have any luck catching eyes. Have any of you fished there? Do you think plastics would produce some fish? If you have not been to the lake, it is a deep, clear lake. Any suggestions on what to try would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Eyeseeker

P.S. I will be at the lake June 11-18.

Go find In-Fisherman’s Critical Concepts books on Walleyes.

The “number 2” book is about locations. They really talk alot about this lake in that book in their stuidies.

It is worth pursuing!!!

I would guess if it’s a clear lake that the bite would be best at low light conditions. I would think then they would come up on bars and points.

If I remember right Ten Mile has a disk test of 15-17 ft…extremely clear. I have fished it a few times and only had success on walleyes at night or a very windy day. Northerns are all still catch and release for a couple of more years.

I read that article. It was based on DNR radio tagging study. It basically concluded that a majority of fish surveyed suspended over deep water and fed on schools of cisco. It also noted a low catch rate for angles in creel surveys. The size of fish in the lake are above average for the state.

I have fished it a few times. You will be there at a good time. Fishing during the day is almost pointless. You may stumble into a fish or two if you are lucky. Concentrate your time from sunset till as late as you can stay up. Troll the shorlines with small stickbaits like a #9 or #11 Rapalas. The approach we take is to run the shallow shorelines with our electric motors going slow and shallow. You will want to spend your daylight hours finding areas to troll. Look for shorelines that drop fairly quickly to 6-10 feet. Expect to bump into an occasional boulder or rock shelf. We use my buddys 14 foot aluminum boat. Nothing fancy.

Good luck.

Sounds like a good lake for pulling boards and deep cranks or snap weights. Cover areas off of known structures like points and weedlines.
Tuck

Ditto what Jon said. We have caught a few eyes off the north bar in 25 fow trolling spinners with nightcrawler harnesess. Shoreline after dark is better. We fished the south end flats after dark with no luck but got to see a spectacular northern lights show one night. Keep an eye out for them.