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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | I thought I would start a thread for peeps to post the conditions on Mille Lacs. So how was the opener? The fish moving at all? Not asking for gps coordinates, just general info on the fishing at the Big Pond. Let's keep this going all summer. Thanks |
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| Paul,
My guess was it sucked like usual for opener, as nowbody has said anything about on any of the boards. I usally don't get a fish or see many till after the 4th of July
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| I would guess just the oppossite and that is why people are tight lipped. :0 |
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| Talked to a few of the guides up there...it was SLOW |
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| I'm convinced that "Mille Lacs" is Ojibwe for "Big Sewer"......fishing was brutal on Sunday. |
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Location: minneapolis | I saw a pic of a beautiful 52" that was caught on Sunday.
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Well, it seems that we have a difference of opinion here. LOL Everything from, It sucks and is a sewer to I saw pix of a 52 inch. Well, that's muskie fishing. LOL
HI to Komer and Peg!
Komer, do think the fish will smoke the Jackpot again this year?
Edited by fishpoop 6/6/2006 4:26 AM
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| We've been seeing some fish, but they've had lockjaw.Some semi-agressive fish in the Southern bays, including Cove, Isle and Wahkon.Nice cabbage in these as well as Mac's.Client couldn't keep the pike off his Hellhound last night.Haven't seen any tankers yet. Steve |
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| Anyone hear anything about the big pond lately? Thinking of heading up Saturday and wondering if they are going up north yet or if it I'd still be better off heading to the south bays. Any info would be appreciated as I have not been up there yet this year. |
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| lots of lookers on the south around isle bay. no luck north yet. |
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| Gonna head out tonight, anybody seeing anything?
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| Please post a report on your trip. I am heading up Friday night and would love to hear if anything is going on. |
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| SJ and Hamernick had a group of 4 out yesterday. I talked to SJ at Noon and they had one in the boat and had raised a couple TANKS on Weagles. Fishing some southern bays I believe
It sounds like it is starting to pick up a little
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| DJS,
Ended working later than expected and it was pretty windy up here so I never made the trip to fish.
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| Sorry to hear that B420. I am going up tomorrow after work and fishing late and then all day Saturday I will give a full report upon my return. Wish me luck! |
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| Was out with clients yesterday and saw 10 fish and had a serious case of HEARTBREAK.Young client hooks his first muskie, oh, 50" and 35lbs.,just about to slip the net under her when she makes one more run and comes unpinned.Without a lot of pressure, the fish opened one of the split rings and was gone.He hooked a 42-43 later in the day that also came unpinned at boatside when she did the corkscrew.Nate had a tough day but kept chucking.Surface temps were in the 69-70 degree range.In the store for 2 days then back to the Pond. Steve |
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| Was out all day yesterday in the Vineland area and didn't see or catch anything. Weeds are up, water was 71. Quite a few boats out. Picked up some nice smallies on the rocks with a split shot and leech to end the boredom!
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| Fished friday night and all day Saturday in Isle, Wahkon, Vineland and Roland. We ended up moving 6 fish and of course boating plenty of pike. The fish are in the weeds but the window of activity seems to be extremely small. At one point on Saturday we had seen 1 fish in 8 hours then moved 3 in five minutes. Not many boats at all in Vineland should have been a clue to us that the muskie fishing was brutal! |
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| Out with clients on Saturday.Fished South and raised a dozen fish or so, including a couple heavies.Boated a 42" just after dark.Fished a few hours with my girlfriend on Sunday, saw a few fish and had a 40" eat a XX Bucktail at boatside.Tawni got to see her first Muskie up close.Good times. Steve |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | Steve,
If you know Jeff Young and see him on the water tell him Steve Johnson said "hey!" We'll hope to see them on Vermilion the last week in July.
Good luck this season!
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| stephendawg - 6/28/2006 9:23 PM
Steve,
If you know Jeff Young and see him on the water tell him Steve Johnson said "hey!" We'll hope to see them on Vermilion the last week in July.
Good luck this season!
hey im goin 2 vermillion last week in july  
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Location: Lafayette, IN | That's too bad. There are no fish in there! 
Look for the white Tracker Magna 19. Say Hi.
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| funny what resort |
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| was there 2 night and no fish lots of ppl on wahkon and had 2 strikes at boatside on a pacemaker fishing was RILLY slow nothing big ether 2 pike
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| Fish are starting to move! Found a rock reef that was loaded with muskie. Had 4 or 5 hot follows and two blow ups on prop baits after sundown. Could see fish as plain as day on sitting on the rocks, it was unreal watching them only feet from the boat! |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Fish have stopped moving! Or, are slooow at best. Fished N. End. a few follows for my partners, I think they said 10. Ok, that might sound like things are moving but the fish were only doing their part for the tourist trade. In other words they were low and slow. A couple of big fish were seen but...well, it was the old see me.. ...but you can't catch me. I didn't get a follow. Nothing moved on anything I threw, but at least I saw a fish so it's a baby step in the right direction.
Lake was calm, with just a little ripple at times. Fish seemed to be on the break. Seems like that little weather front that came through late Friday night, early Saturday morning shut things down. We fished Leech on Sat and moved nothing on Leech so came down to Mille Lacs on Sudday hoping to improve our odds, I guess we did if getting a few lazy follows count for anything.
Saw a few familir faces up there. Felt like a reunion of some sort. |
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| 4 seriously OVERFED fish in my boat on Saturday. And a 49.5 in the other boat we were with.
All on XX's.
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| Fished Northwest sunday and had one decent fish blow up a pacemaker, and got a nice pike on a bucktail. Devestated the walleye's midday on the flats!!
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Caught this 48" on Saturday. A few other blowups, one follow. The pike are hot right now.
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Any new reports this week?
I was up last Tuesday for a day. Moved a few fish but no strikes. Pretty slow again. Fished Vineland mostly then ran up to N. end and looked at all the fish in the aquarium. The fish on the N. End were so negative that you could drop a jig on their backs and they wouldn't move. But that was 5 days ago. I'm slow in posting reports. Anyhow, saw a number of fish just sunning themselves but as I said nothing doing. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | I had about the same experience as you did this weekend. Saw a lot, but nothing was interested in what I was throwing. A few curious follows. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Just spent 2 days on the Pond. Saw a number of fish but didn't boat any muskies. Partner had a low 40 inch fish on and lost it. Had a couple of hits that we both missed. Partner had a approx 12 pound pike and say a 8 pound pike in the boat. Saw a couple of pigs of which one followed the other didn't.
I got a small pike and the biggest walleye I've ever caught. I know this is a muskie board, and who gives a rip about walleye? Well I caught it on a Huntertail bucktail. It was 26 3/4 long. Inside the slot limit so back it went. I'm not good on guessing walleye weights but call it an 8 pound fish. Pretty fair fighter, wish I could have got it on walleye gear rather than muskie gear, I'm sure that would have been FUN, but even on the muskie gear it gave a pretty good fight. It's also the only walleye that I've caught on muskie gear. We also had a couple of decent walleyes follow to the boat. I kept teasing my partner, that we should stop throwing those walleye lures and get some leeches and nightcrawlers and go muskie fishing. Made sense to me, if we were getting walleye on bucktails, spinnerbaits, etc then we needed leeches for Muskies. LOL!
Still, it was a SLOW fishing period. The muskies were slighty active but not going great guns. But there were a couple of chances to score. We had a lot of the low, late and slow follows. Only had 1 follow from a fish that showed any real aggression on the lure. But that one also didn't hit the lure.
Monday was windy and the lake rough, but seemed the better of the 2 days fish activity wise. Tuesday in early morning there was a little activity but with the High Pressure weather system it was kind of slow. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Went out last night from 5:30pm - dark and fished weeds and rock - never saw a fish. |
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| out monday on city lakes for a couple hours during prime time,,saw nothing,,,tuesday did the 'smart" thing and instead of fishing went down to target center and bought a ticket from the scalpers for Def Leppard & Journey,,the fishing lately is reminding me of a DL tune- "Brigin on the heartache"!!!!! |
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| any updates on the big pond?
will be there this weekend....
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| The warreye are bitin, muskies are pretty only going in the dark from what I hear |
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| Out this past weekend for the first time on Mille Lac this season. Lost 2 fish sat. and 2 sunday, all action was in the mornings. Seen a lot of muskies biggest 45+ inches but most from 36-42. Lot of missed strikes and stuff and after the fourth one lost it was propably good I had to head home becouse I began to get a little p'd off. Tryed the night thing sat but the wind chased me off the water early. Two weeks till I can make it back so I'm countin the days. |
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| I've never fished Mille Lacs, or even seen it. What are some of the better lures to use there in the next month or so? |
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| derrys i have heard stompers r good up there |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | For weeds, popular Mille Lacs lures include spinner baits, plastics, and topwaters. Running lures like spinner baits and plastics over and through the weeds or prop style topwaters can be affective at times.
All the standard cranks like Jakes, Depthraiders, Grandmas, Slammers, etc can be good for trolling along weed edges and rock bars. All the popular jerk-baits seem to move fish at times too.
I don't know if there is a best color or not. Talk to five guys and get five different opinions.
Hope this helps some. |
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| Agreed. Most things will work depending on conditions, I really like glider style jerks and topwaters but have done well on spinnerbaits and bucktails also, white, orange, black, red, pretty much varies with personal preference and the mood of the fish. I also think plastics are good here (as they are on most muskie lakes). Sorry for not narrowing it down real far but I think most stuff will work, so I'd say whatever you have lots of confidence in. Good Fishing. |
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| Last sun 7-23..watertemp was 80,,,,4 straight days of high 90s with mon supposed to be 105....can someone shoots us a recent watertemp??? is it possible we could see 85 by next weekend????pray for wind |
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| Ask and you shall receive.Just backfrom the Pond.Surface temps in the upper 70's early and late and topping 80 during the day this week.The saving grace has been the storms bringing rain and wind.Crazy wind from the SW today, with 4+ footers rolling into the Wharf. Steve |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | My brother in law caught this beast while fishing with Lee Tauchen last week. He lost an even bigger fish the next day. This fish was caught on a Mag Dawg on a rocky structure. SJ he talked to you at the landing.
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| i was out 2 day at vinland and rwe boated a 43 in the 14 cast but didnt c a fish the rest of the day 
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| I'm leaving for Mille Lacs in less than 24 hours. Anyone have a current report on lures, or locations that they wouldn't mind sharing?
I promise to put the fish back after I catch them. Ha ha.
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| fished Mille Lacs on thursday and Friday. There was a substantial Tulibee die-off. Talked with a local and he made an analogy to sitting in a fast food food place and picking off oily,salty french fries as they come floating by. Who knows, but muskies were slow for us on the south side. It is sad to see the number of dead walleyes floating on the surface.
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| They don't eat the dead ciscoes or walleye. The fish are there just have to get away from the crowds on the north end |
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| Fri night stayed out late,,only boat on the wealthwood end of North after 10 ,,Wind out of the south 'POUNDING"in first time ever I coudnt cast from the platform but had to stay on the floor, clouds moving in-Perect scenario right out of musky hunter mag,,we got nothing,,might have seen two fish,,saw two in Vineland,, watertemp 77 on sunday |
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| The north end was a zoo yesterday.....seemed every square inch of the north end had a boat on it.
We found some active (and large) fish on shallow rock spots....."burning" bulldawgs was working for us. |
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| Hook,
You weren't the only boat out there friday night, we was out till midnight on the north end. Could barely stand up in the boat due to the waves! To rough to even drink beers in the boat! Saw one nice fish before dark and that was it. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | My buddies fished Saturday on the north end, nothing to show for it. I met up with them Sunday morning and hit the north end, 3 missed fish, 1 43" and a bonus 20" Smallie.
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| I will be there Tues- Fri. I hope they are on atleast one day we are there. |
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| Komer,,"my bad" meant sat,,,when you make one Fruitless cast after another,after another..the days just blend together..you got no highlights to identify with,, |
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| going nite fishing for the frist time since i was a little kid [its really not that far away] on mille lacs i will give a report as soon as i get back o and that is tomorow |
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| Hey, I read something on a proposed 48" limit on mille lacs and several other minnesota lakes that is going to be put to a vote, and I also heard there is already some opposition to it. Does anyone have any information on what, when, why and is there any organization on our side to see this thing through. I just thought I'd bring it up becouse I feel we really need to stand up and let people know we care about the quality of our musky fishery. Thanks. |
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| Yes there is a 48" size limit on some lakes now. Most are posted by the launch.
Release em all. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | I have no idea why anyone would be opposed to an increased size limit. This years Muskie Inc magazine said 98.5% of all muskies caught last year were released. Look at all of the 50"+ (lots and lots) that are being caught and released. Catch and release has paid off HUGE dividends.
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| Ok this is the report for vineland......its dead didnt see a fish we tried a little after dark for maybe a hour read my post on genneral discussoin my mille lacs post for the warning on the acsses for vinland. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Fished Vineland yesterday morning 6 am to 12:30 pm, I had one beast of a fish follow in 3 times round the figure 8 and split, man that would have been a nice fish to have a picture of myself holding. Also missed a solid hit who knows what it was. Sure is odd not to pick up any northerns. All encounters came on a Squirrely Phatom.
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| It's been a while since anyone has posted. Hopefully you've been to busy fishing Mille Lacs to report. Was up last weekend during the tourney. Nice fish caught. The water is lower than usual. But the fish are there, big and biting. |
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| was there last sunday on the north end didnt even get a folow saw to fish surfacing but thats it one of the fish wwwe saw surfacing was in the 50 inch class |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Anything new from the Big Pond ??? will be in that area in about a week of so and could use any suggestions of where to find some areas to fish where a Hillbilly might have a chance to at least see a fish or 2. South end of lake??? North end?? Big lake that I've never been on. Whats been hot for others. Hair, jerkbait, weedbeds, rocks????? Come on folks , help a good old boy out.
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| The lake is low! Little rain all summer. North end is sand easier on the prop. Water temp high 60's last night. Weeds arn't hard to find on the north end. Huge fish, never know what they will eat. We've been throwing hair and top water. Less boats all the time,I like this time of year. Will be cold here next week. |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | Mauser,
I fished it with Jonesi last Sunday for only 6 hours on my way back to Chicago. We had action from a couple fish, one over 50, and caught three pike in the 40 inch range. Bucks and balldawgs is all we threw. More specifically the XX and mag dawg in any color. Weeds showed us the most action. Give him a call 612-799-2034 on your way up there. Bring a ton of rain gear and a big boat. The waves get rockin out there.
later, thedude |
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| Fished the North End Saturday night, had 2 on and couldnt get them in the boat, caught a few nice Walleyes on Stick Baits, anybody else having any luck????? |
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| fished rocks on the west and north on sat. did not see a fish, talked to doug stange at the ramp he saw 2 all day. talked to a guy who was up during the sept. full moon and he boated 8 in two days, he would not give details on the pattern, trolling rocks at night??? |
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