You can definately hit a hot spot and pound 30 in a weekend, but its not common. I don’t count the walleye I catch running around during the day. I’m just talking about shack numbers. Sitting in a house and pounding 30 eyes in a weekend is a rarity, but can certainly happen. 84 out of a shack in Feb. might be a bit of a stretch!!!lol
I’ve been fishing the lake since the mid 90’s, owned a skid house 15 years now. Definitely nothing special to me this year. lots of fish in the 18-22″ range and no other species to speak of on mid-lake structure. The tullibee bite is pretty good, but they are all big and that fishery is about to collapse right along with the perch. I enjoyed perch fishing more than walleye, hitting a school of jumbos and pulling up a half dozen slobs in a few minutes was just awesome. Those days are long gone, probably won’t return in my fishing lifetime. 10 years ago the lake was full of 26-28″ fish, that was a blast! One year I got 12 over 28″ just myself. The population of large pike is way down because of the harpooners as well, I used to get several large pike per winter season, haven’t had one in three years now. I keep a pretty detailed journal of my fishing and numbers are average for me this year about 12 walleye per trip in my skid house. Treaty management has ruined a large portion of the fishery with more to come unfortunately….
My bad! I though he had said Eddy’s. Of course Lybeck’s is a stand up resort. good luck! 
You probably won’t need bait in Eddy’s shacks. They sit in the same terrible spot all year. By far the worst rentals on the lake. I would cancel and go anywhere else ASAP. Unless you like terrible service and no fish. Eddy Lybeck has a stand up resort.
Look at the slime drip off that thing. YUCK
I’l take that anyday! The huge pike in Mille Lacs are awesome and a great treasure. Not many places with a legit shot at a 40″+ fish these days.
Ice conditions in Cromwell are some of the worst I’ve ever seen. 12″+ snow, 6′ slush/water below that, and only 8-9″ of ice. Drill a hole and get flooded. Virgin ground is almost unfishable. If some one has broke trail fishing is possible. I’ll wait till late ice to try my luck again…..
How can we find his video?
Going up to the area this weekend. What have the panfish been doing? I assume no spawn yet.
Oldstar we are going for Tullies April 1, 2 qnd 3 just north of Sandy-anyway so many good lakes up that way with size and numbers, I would find one of those lakes and wait a year or 2 for Sandy to come back. Lake we are going to you get waves of crappies and waves of Tullies in the same spot.
Feel free to PM me the names of some of these lakes! I might end up going to Mille Lacs but they are so far off shore there it can be a challenge to get to good water late ice.
Do you know what part of the lake produces best?
What perch? have you seen a pic of more than 2 together all winter????
Great way to save money……
The weekend was very good, I also ran out of bait Sunday. I was really surprised with the barometer and conditions. But it came crashing down Monday-Tuesday. Two guys who were near me and one who was miles away all got a few fish or a skunk. I think the mid-winter slow down is here…..
Was there heat in the shack? You guys sure are bundled up for being inside! 
Good luck!
That is a cute story beef. But there is one major problem. There have been countless videos made of netters coming into launches, and there is no counting of the fish. I have heard estimates that half or more of the fish that come in are not counted. I will agree that the Mills lacs band is trying to help the lake, while the Wisconsin tribes could care less.
Great! I hope to find a few slabs this weekend. I love those black beauties!
They have been closing down the fall for walleye fishing anyway. Why not try netting in November? There are large amounts of shallow walleyes then too. Close it to angling and see if this protects the spawn and produces more fry. I know this makes too much sense. The DNR will never do it.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:</div>
Not trying to be a JD Winston here, however fish and game violations or abuses does not discriminate only to the “red man”.Actually Andy it does, and that is the problem. If I were caught on video breaking the law (wanton waste is illegal even if the <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>bass was in season), I would be ticketed at the very least.
And I truly try to stay objective in these events, that is what separates the “high ground” from the finger pointing.
Despite what some have posted here, do you or anyone know whether in fact they were ticketed or issued a citation? Maybe…maybe not? Possibly they were?
As far as the discrimination goes, remember the “deer poacher” last year that got off because the law enforcement bungled the warrant allowance and GPS’d his truck and it all got dismissed because of that misstep and everyone knows he’s guilty.
Or “Operation Squarehook” that took years to gather evidence and build the case only to have multiple indictments being dismissed. And FWIW, many involved were the buyers, restaurant owners that were as much or more guilty. No they were not “the red men”.
Andy, maybe this fall someone will pull a 77′ dodge truck with no muffler into your front yard and blast a deer. You can video tape it and nothing will happen.Then maybe your opinion will change. If you don’t see this action as terribly wrong and disrespectful to the property owners and the resource you are part of the problem. How can you possible be objective in this situation??? White,black,yellow, red it does not matter wrong is wrong. This has never been a race issue to many of us, nor did I see any racist remarks on this post. It is wrong and antiquated and should be stopped. It is 2017 not 1853.
WW is a smaller outfit and often does not have bridges out. KJ’s always has bridges and access to the spirit island area. Can be some good bites out in the deep mud for Tullibees.
Anyone doing any good in the past 2 days?
I was out in 32 fow (from the east side) last weekend for a day and did pretty well (15 fish in 16 hours). My dad has been up there since Monday and did really well Monday thru Wednesday night in roughly the same area, but the bite shut down yesterday and today.
I am headed back up this weekend and I do not know where to start with the warmer weather coming.
Any info/suggestions are appreciated.
That would be expected with the high pressure that moved in. The next 5-7 days should see a lot of fish on the ice!
Greg
The weekend of the 10th will see ice action in the area if the forecast holds true. 
The idiot finally got some balls and did the right thing and the tribe backed him down again. Makes me sick. If they don’t open it up to some harvest this class will eat out all the forage and we will have a disaster again…..
There is no perch fishing anymore on Mille Lacs. You may get a few going after walleye but the population is basically too low to target. It’s really sad….
I had to go to the west side with the high winds. It is very difficult to nail down a charter with the light fishing pressure none of the resorts are going out everyday. I called just about every outfit on the lake to find a boat going out. Voge goes out of Dickies old place. It is now private property now but they lease dock space to a charter.
I made it out with Twin Pines on Thursday. It was a good night for fishing. Had a great bite and got about 20 fish myself. Boat must have been over 60-70 with 5 people on the launch. Went out in Isle Friday with Voge Charters and it was bluebird skies and no wind. Charter still managed about 20 fish. Both operations were great. been a LONG time since I was on a charter and I have to say I really enjoyed myself. Hard to beat for only $35. It was nice to sit back and enjoy a beverage and not worry about a thing!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Oldstar wrote:</div>
LOL! If you want the limit to be 4, then you should only keep 4 yourself. The word hypocrite comes to mind…..Your earlier post said you keep only 13″-15″ fish. I doubt those two big females in your avatar were released since you’re in a bait shop. Hypocrite can go both ways on pictures…Just sayin’…RR
Actually it’s my fish house and it was a double on Mille Lacs last winter. Both were of course released. You make some bold assumptions along with your hypocritical actions.
