Mille Lacs Early Fall Smallie Help

My boy and I are heading up to the big pond this Friday 8/30/19 to try our luck at some smallie fishing. I haven’t been up there In quite a few years and have never been up there to target small mouth bass. I’ve done quite a bit of research on forums and You Tube to find what I could to help us locate fish. I have a good handle on tackle to use and I know to fish bigger rocks on the SE side of the lake from what I’ve gathered. I have GPS and lake maps on my Lowrance so that should help. With the weather cooling down I’m wondering if anyone has been fishing recently or has a recommendation on how deep to try and maybe a good area/reef to start our search. Any help at all would greatly be appreciated. Thank you in advance!!

Shoreline rock structure in 8-16′ of water was really good a week ago. Fishing crayfish colored tubes with a 1/4oz head worked the best. We weren’t targeting the giant boulders at all. Not to say you wouldn’t catch the heck out of them doing that, but it’s not mandatory to catch bass right now.

Thanks Pat! This is very helpful. I like to jump around a lot until I find fish so I’m sure we will locate some good spots. Glad to here we don’t necessarily need to find boulders. That would be tougher. I will report how we did for anyone else once we get back.

Pat and Brad did a cool episode recently:

Gear Guide: https://youtu.be/K6GBcnRNhqw

Location Breakdown: https://youtu.be/4JTzYnGsewo

Great episode! Thank you for sharing!!