So with Mille Lacs re-opening the walleyes, my buddy and I decided last minute that we are going to give it a go this afternoon/evening. I haven’t fished Mille Lacs in August. What’s the latest? I don’t have leadcore to troll cranks, so that’s out. What should we plan to run today?
Spinners and leeches on rocks points close to deep water worked for us last weekend. anywhere 8-13′ and we only caught them there because that’s all we fished. You may find them deeper as well.
We caught them in similar areas trolling cranks too.
Heard the launches did ok with bobbers and leeches in deep rocks too. But that’s was they always do and they always do ok and sometimes great ha.
Caught them last weekend in multiple places. Mostly leeches and the best spot was in 28 feet on the edge of a flat. Moral is they are not hard to find.
For those that bobber fish, is there any advantage of that vs verticle jigging?
For those that bobber fish, is there any advantage of that vs verticle jigging?
I have often wondered that exact thing myself. In 6-12′ of water I can see having it out away from the boat. Over 28″, don’t know what else for other than many people like seeing that bobber disappear. 
We did well this past weekend pulling spinners around some deep gravel. They were up on top in 25-26 feet on Sunday when it was rainy and windy, and on Saturday when it was sunny and flat we found them 50-100 yards off the edge in 31-32 feet. I was pulling a 3 ounce bouncer with a 6 foot leader, two hook hardness to a 6 inch pumpkinseed Power Crawler. Gold blade worked best when it was bright out and dark purple was best when it was cloudy and windy. When the fish hit they just hammered it. We marked fish all over but kept moving to find the pods of active ones. We were even able to mark fish 10 feet off the bottom, reel up to them, and get bit.
Got into some decent sized walleyes today trolling scatter deep tail dancers in 20-24′.
Got a nice fat 25″r that was spewing eggs all over the boat. Is that normal for August?
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You don’t need lead core, there are plenty of walleyes on the shallow rocks still. Any crank with red on it is working really well in 6-12′ over rocks. There are a ton of crayfish in the lake and the smallies and <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleyes are taking advantage of it.
this is spot on. 5 walleyes in the first 20 minutes long lining cranks. want to change it up? try big pike or muskee baits in the weeds. just bigger walleyes there.
Got out for a few hours on Saturday afternoon. We were trying some new area’s and new tactics, so it was a little slow. Ended up with 6 eye’s and a smallie all off the east side rocks shallower than 18 fow. Lots of people up and lots of pleasure boats out too. Highlight was the Prime Rib at Nitti’s Hunters Point after we got off the water, REALLY good!
Anyone been out to the mud recently? are spinners and crawlers still working?
Two weeks ago crawlers worked for me … I intend to try them this weekend.
Tactics for the weekend???
I am going to pull spinners with crawlers and minnows on the north end. heading up tonight in my new to me boat.
I’m pulling lead and/or boards with cranks.
Went out Monday the 28th. Put together a little video of our day.
Let me know what you think
Great video. Nice fish to end it
Went out Saturday and sunday with different results each day.
Saturday I pulled spinners in the mud 100 to 500 yards off different flats. Around a dozen fish with 5 over 23″ and a couple 26″ and a few eater sized fish as well.
Sunday I could not get them to go, tried pulling lead and spinners with only one eater size fish to show for it. Not sure what happened but was marking fish all over my waypoints just couldn’t get em to go.
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