|
|
Posts: 24
| I'll be fishing Mille Lacs on Friday for the first time in 5 years. Any tips appreciated. Looks like the water temps should be cooled down. Should I try the north sand or will there be more of a weed bite? Depth? Lures? Thanks for any help. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2068
| haven't been there in about 5 years either ..but I'll say this you're going at a good time with water cooling and all options are on the table ..sand, weed, rocks, even open water/mud flats ... if someone says I got 2 in the weeds today, ML maybe as much as anywhere pays to be versatile.. and don't fish "yesterday's" pattern if you aren't getting desired results, the problem is on ML..the desire results in generally one good strike a day! Good luck! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 24
| Thanks. I appreciate it. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 719
| Pretty low density on the big Pond but some big girls for sure. I would recommend sticking with just a few patterns and grinding it out and waiting for periods of activity vs trying every pattern in the book and maybe missing the one or two bites a day you may get because you are running or trying an off beat pattern. If it was me I would troll and try and cover miles of N sand or around the flats. Either way it's a needle in a haystack deal.
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 24
| bturg - 9/2/2020 8:54 PM
"Pretty low density on the big Pond but some big girls for sure."
Definitely. Hoping for that elusive 50"+. The rest of my trip I'll be on high-density waters so I wanted a day of giant hunting. I have caught a 55" out the pond but I have seen bigger there as well. Maybe lightning will strike and I'll get lucky. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 69
Location: Royalton, MN | Any word on the southern bays? I'll be heading up tomorrow to try casting for musky and pike. I've really struggled with the casting bite up there. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 464
| Why such a decline in this lake? It used to have multiple guides and giants caught pretty regularly. It obviously has declined much like Vermillion, but why? Did MNR stop stocking, delayed mortality, over harvest? What gives? Never fished it but have been interested. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 719
| chasintails - 10/2/2020 10:52 AM
Why such a decline in this lake? It used to have multiple guides and giants caught pretty regularly. It obviously has declined much like Vermillion, but why? Did MNR stop stocking, delayed mortality, over harvest? What gives? Never fished it but have been interested.
That is a chapter not a paragraph. Throw walleyes into the discussion and it is a novel.
Short version: lots of mortality for a variety of reasons. Poor reproduction and
a significant decline in stocking at the same time. Boom bust cycle for sure.
Edited by bturg 10/3/2020 11:20 PM
|
|
| |
Mille Lacs Help