Mille Lacs Report

Got up to the red door around 2, first time on mille lacs, trolled the north shore with raps starting out in 8-14, caught 1 17 inch smalley. Was cloudy so hard to find exactly here the weeds were. Headed to hunters point, pulled lead around there and headed west into the basin (east wind had me going west, didnt want to fight the waves) caught 2 eyes both around 14 inches on shad taps. Pulled lead around the flats in the basin with no luck. More to come tomorrow. Any suggestions are welcome!

Also, is there a gas pump somewhere on north end so that i can leave boat on water? Thx!

Barnacle Bills has a pump. I believe Castaways does too.

andy bice wrote:

Also, is there a gas pump somewhere on north end so that i can leave boat on water? Thx!

I know Fisher’s has a pump as well.

I would continue to troll the 24-30′ sand/mud transition during the day but mornings/evenings you can do very well just West of the Red Door in 10-12′ either long-lining shad raps or setting up on a good piece of structure with bobbers. Ideally the shallow structure will be best if the wind has been blowing into the rocks, pushing in bait.

ok, so we fished 2.5 days on mille lacs.

overall we caught ~30 walleye with 3 around 17 inches and 1 about 22 inches (photo below). all the others were small (like 10 inches). most of our eyes came in 27-30′ just northwest of hunters point (thanks Will!) saw a lot more arcs that wouldn’t bite. we caught a few eyes on schultz flat along with this 40 inch pike (photo below). we tried trolling the 8-14 foot break on the north end with now luck, we also tried chubs under a bobber but didn’t have much luck as the week line is not very defined… tried to find cabbage beds but couldn’t really find them. wonder if they are less developed this year with the late spring. graphed a ton of fish on the bottom at about 22 feet just north of the red door. couldn’t get them to bite, could these really just be eyes stacked up that weren’t biting? couldn’t believe how many fish there were on my graph. also attached this image of bait (are these bugs?) on schults flat, all kinds of ‘stuff’ on that flat, just not many fish biting. all the walleyes and the pike came on leadcore 120-150 feet out with #5 shad raps or #4 salmos. ventures out in the basin but didn’t see much. seemed like more action was on the flat. on a side note, the red door was great, can’t wait to come back. thanks guyus for all your help on ido over the past few weeks. definetly helped us out there.

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forgot to mention, also pulled lead around the gravel down south (i think it was called 3 mile gravel), caught 1 northern, no walleyes. but the wind was minimal which might have hurt us down there. graphed plenty of fish.

We hucked and trolled bucktails on the north end saturday, we put in at Wealthwood, there was 1 other rig there…. Fished for about 4 hours. Not even a follow… very cloudy, but not too rough, the wind switched from the SE to the NE as we fished, but didn’t help !

andy bice wrote:

Also, is there a gas pump somewhere on north end so that i can leave boat on water? Thx!

Trying to remember if Myr Mar doesn’t have pump… I know we’ve gotten bait and beer there, thought we took on gas, but can’t remember… I know we used that gas station at the corner of 18 and 169, but its obviously not on the water.

Mark

anyone have any ideas what all the large arcs i was seeing on the bottom in 22 foot just south of the red door were?

they weren’t interested in a shad rap.

wish i would have had an underwater camera with me

andy bice wrote:

anyone have any ideas what all the large arcs i was seeing on the bottom in 22 foot just south of the red door were?

they weren’t interested in a shad rap.

Without a camera to drop down it is a tough call. It could be anything from walleye to suckers.

andy bice wrote:

ok, so we fished 2.5 days on mille lacs.

overall we caught ~30 walleye with 3 around 17 inches and 1 about 22 inches (photo below). all the others were small (like 10 inches). most of our eyes came in 27-30′ just northwest of hunters point (thanks Will!) saw a lot more arcs that wouldn’t bite. we caught a few eyes on schultz flat along with this 40 inch pike (photo below). we tried trolling the 8-14 foot break on the north end with now luck, we also tried chubs under a bobber but didn’t have much luck as the week line is not very defined… tried to find cabbage beds but couldn’t really find them. wonder if they are less developed this year with the late spring. graphed a ton of fish on the bottom at about 22 feet just north of the red door. couldn’t get them to bite, could these really just be eyes stacked up that weren’t biting? couldn’t believe how many fish there were on my graph. also attached this image of bait (are these bugs?) on schults flat, all kinds of ‘stuff’ on that flat, just not many fish biting. all the walleyes and the pike came on leadcore 120-150 feet out with #5 shad raps or #4 salmos. ventures out in the basin but didn’t see much. seemed like more action was on the flat. on a side note, the red door was great, can’t wait to come back. thanks guyus for all your help on ido over the past few weeks. definetly helped us out there.

Nice work Andy! Glad we could help.