The walleye action continues to be good on this Memorial Day weekend. Many reports of walleyes are coming from the northend sand breaks. The size of the walleye are running on the smaller size with many coming to the boat in the 13-14 in. range. You will also release fish in the 22-23 inch range. Most are rigging leeches on lindy rigs. We caught our walleye on lindy rigs with a red hook.
The depth of water that has been good for my boat has been around the 16-18 foot range. If this depth doesn’t work move deeper. The evening rock bite has also been pretty good. Bobber fishing with leeches and slip bobbers in the shallow reefs. While scanning the marine radio Saturday nite, I heard many reports of good numbers of fish caught!
Also on a side note, my neighbors are catching walleye off our docks just before dark. The depth off the dock is around 4-8 feet, depending how far you can cast your bobber! So don’t be shy about going shallow for the evening bite.
The smallmouth action started out this opener with a bang! Give these bronzeback’s a try on your next trip to Mille Lacs. You won’t be sorry! Try out the line of B-Fish-N-Tackle plastics and H20 jigs! The gold speckled K-Grub hooked on a 1/8oz H20 jig worked well my my first trip of the year…..
Nice report BOB! I’m itching to get back there. I have only been there once so far this year and it was in the wind tunnel
Good to hear both speices of fish are active! 
Yes sand bite picking up nicely but nite bite out of Mry Mar is unbleivable give it a try, two of us caught 20 to 25 fish in hour two nites in a row
I have heard reports of stained water by Myr Mar lately. Have any of you guys noticed that? A lot of the tannic streams must be really flowing uo there!
The lake has been looking like that all the way down to Agate Bay. The rain has been flowing into the lake for sure!
Winston and I will be up tomorrow. Any of you be out there also? I suppose we could use use his one way radio on 82 again.
Which one 8 or 2?
Break for Jim………..go ahead Winston! Break for Jim………go ahead Winston!
You had to have been there!!!
Stay tuned. I’ll get him going again tomorrow.
Made it up there yesterday with Winston and we boated 16 walleyes in the first 6 hours. The bite turned off after that and we should have tried something different but it was so nice drifting along, drinking a beer, and listening to the Twins game that we decided the heck with it. Sometimes catching fish becomes secondary. BTW, I whacked him 11-5.
My hook set percentage with lindy rigs improved vastly with the change from Power Pro to mono line (thanks Tuck and Rob) and a hook style change.
Winston’s one way radio became a no way radio as he charged it up the night before but left it on the kitchen counter yesterday. Maybe we will have to try smoke signals.