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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.
Edited by esoxlady 6/5/2006 11:18 PM
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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
Edited by BALDY 6/21/2006 11:55 AM
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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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