Mille Lacs Feb 9th – 10th

Anyone fish Mille Lacs this past weekend? I went through Lybach’s – out the graveyard in about 28 feet of water. Very slow fishing. Only 1 walleye. Anyone else with a report?

Chad

Fishing was slow for my girlfriend and I also this past weekend. Went out of Mac’s Twin Bay and fished a similar depth around Hennepin. Ended up with 5 walleyes including this 24.5 incher she caught. Lost a couple of smaller fish too. We didn’t graph many fish but the ones we caught were pretty aggressive. Entire staff at Mac’s was very friendly and accommodating and we were impressed how nice their sleeper house was. We enjoyed our trip overall including having some good food at their restaurant!

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We were out of Appledorn’s. Same for us, very slow. We had 3 fish for the weekend. Marked a fair number of fish, but not aggressive at all. Glad we were not he only ones!!

Been lousy for a month plus. Set the bar super high with the early ice madness. Still heading up in the AM.

In the last month: Short hour-long flurries of activity at AM/PM prime time, and that’s about it. Lots of lookers that barely rise off the bottom, and the ones that actually do bite are super charged up and knock slack into your line. Very little luck with anything that has rattles. Smaller minnows outproducing suckers on tip-ups, even fatheads. Fish staying put on the bottom of the break and not heading to the top of the break to feed at primetime, like they often do when the bite is good, instead just getting more active on the bottom of the break. I’ve done very, very poorly after dark. I’ve heard the opposite but haven’t seen it. Best depth 26-30′, mixed in with the tullies and perch. Getting about a fish an hour on average (including dinks) and working hard for it. That’s been my experience.