Lake Mille Lacs fishing report from 10/19-10/24/04

My one trip a year to Mille Lacs again did not let me down…That lake is only second to Erie for me as walleye lakes go that I have been to…On this Trip Scott "SHED10" Shedivy accompanied me for 5 nights of trolling on the Big Pond.

Our first night out after a 6+ hour drive was a great start to our 5 night stay. Pulling #12 HJ’s in 7-10 feet of water just into and just out of the weed line put several fish in my boat along with one angry toothy pike Speeds of 1-1.7 in these depths put us on our fish…We had 8 walleyes and 1 pike with 6 fish missed…Most all the walleyes had the cranks either just in the corner of their mouths or hooked up along side their heads as if they were bumping into them…but like one guys said this past week,,,they don’t have hands to check out the bait so they use their heads…

On the second night out and after some well needed sleep (this will keep your head from rolling off your shoulders ) We tried our luck on another bay that has a well defined weed line which seemed to be a good spot for the walleyes to ambush our offerings…and it wasn’t long and we were hooked up on some real nice walleyes like the pig SHED10 is holding in this picture, it’s a 26" 7 pounder. The wind had not left us alone, with 10-20mph out of the south, south east it was fun time keeping the speeds at around 1.5 and staying on fish…But it was easy enough because this night our boat had 10 walleyes for the night…the smallest 18" and we only had one of these but the rest were all over 20 with the 5 from 26" to a monster 28" 8 pounder…

The 3rd and 4th nights the wind was as bad if not worse than the first two nights…Boat control is the most important part of this trip because if you blown into the weeds your cranks will be full and if your to far on the outside there just aren’t as many aggressive fish out there…We tried to hit the south end with the winds out of the south looking for some shelter but it just wasn’t to be so we went in search of some where we could hide out from some of the 3-4 foot waves…after combing the shorelines looking for a bay that looked fishy and had a little calmer waves we settled in and started pulling some more cranks in the 8-10 foot range…The water temps had never swung more than 1 deg. the hole time we have been out and the moon never showed it’s face except for a wink or two…These past two nights were still more of the same…DeeZee jumped into our boat for some action and great conversation but it was only for a short 4 hours or so. It’s always great to see you Steve I only wish our schedules would allow us to do it more often.. On the 22nd we managed to boat 9 more walleyes ranging from 18"-24.5" and the natural colors just didn’t put fish in the boat yet but the brighter colors were still working well.. As shown here, another pig caught by SHED10

Our last night out we had James Holst in my boat…This is always a treat because when the two of us get together we usually end up having pains in our sides from laughing so much, so if you saw a green neon glow stick franticly waving all over the place and tons of laughter in a boat that was us

But this didn’t stop us from catching several fish (i believe it was 19 for the night)all ranging from 16" to a real nice 27" walleye at the end of the night…With the clouds parting and the wind calming down the choice of cranks changed up quite a bit….James downsized his choice of cranks and went with a rouge jr. and landed this beautiful walleye…

Lots of fish, GREAT company led to another memorable trip to Mille Lacs for a full moon walleye bite…(Thanks James for a great night out on the lake)