Looks like someone broke the new catch-n-release length state record from Mille Lacs on June 11 with a 58 1/4 incher. Kind of a long video and I didn’t watch the whole thing. I’m sure there will be an article about it pretty soon, as the DNR just certified it as the new record holder.
So now Mille Lacs has both the official state record pure strain muskie and the official catch-n-release length record muskie, taken in back to back years.
Says a lot about the Big Pond.
58 1/4″ a true gem.
Awesome accomplishment and that she was released.
Hopefully one day Minnesota will have the world record.
I swear last year my buddy would have broken the state record on Mille Lacs. He had not been musky fishing since the late 80’s / early 90’s and his rod was not up to par. I offered him one of my spare rods. He told me his was good enough and shared some nice stories of some of the muskies it has landed. Later that day we were long line trolling and his drag started screaming. I thought he hooked a log or something. I worked my way back to retrieve his bait when it started moving. The thing was a monster and he could not even move it. We saw her shake her head and the lure popped out. For the rest of the trip he used my equipment and we landed some nice muskies. Wish we would have gotten that one in.
Congratulations to those guys.
A muskie angler informed me over the weekend that a new record may have been caught on ML a week ago. Pictures circulating between muskie folks.
What do you think makes Mille Lacs such a big fish factory?
Food.
Nope.
What do you think makes Mille Lacs such a big fish factory?
The prey/baitfish population ebbs and flows just like the walleye population does. The walleyes primarily eat perch in that lake and when there’s a lack of perch, they eat each other or just about anything you fish for them with. That is not the case right now. There appears to be an abundance of perch.
A few years ago they were skinny. It wasn’t hard to catch them. You could drag around live bait and get bit relatively easily.
The primary reason for the mammoth muskies is because of tulibee/cisco. They are loaded with fat and protein. There’s more calories in a 12 inch cisco than there is in a double bacon cheeseburger (literally). They will be spawning soon too on the shallow rock reefs and you’ll hear of more enormous muskies being caught.
There’s more calories in a 12 inch cisco than there is in a double bacon cheeseburger (literally). They will be spawning soon too on the shallow rock reefs and you’ll hear of more enormous muskies being caught.
Happens this time of year every year. Will be fun to see pictures if they ever surface. Sometimes they never do. One dude caught a mammoth musky like a year to the day apart from a previous one. Same spot and everything. Possibly the same fish even.
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