Lake Miltona

[minnesotamusky]

My dad and I will be fishing Lake Miltona tomorrow. We have never been there before and were wondering where to find the walleyes and muskies. Maybe even bass and panfish. I do have a pretty good lake map. Can anyone point out the best spots for us? Thanks.

[Sarge]

Sorry I didn't see your post ealier.
Spent the last week fishing Miltona, Mostly trying for Muskies(with no luck). But did find a few crappies, bass, walleye, and bluegills(two ten inchers), Straight out from the north landing, where the flat drops off to the east. 14ft to 20ft was the place to be, jigging with leeches and crawlers.

On a little side note, we did catch two fish, a 3lb pike and a 1lb rock bass, that had both been obviously been attacked by a large predator, while being reeled in. I caught the pike, and while reeling it in I nearly had the pole jerked out of my hands, once landed, the fish started bleeding from the area where the scales and some skin had just been removed. And Leah caught the rock bass with wounds that didn't come from a prop. We were close to the big boys, they seemed to want live "bait" more than anything else we tried.

Let me know how you did, and where you fished, that lake has so much different structure to fish it takes alot of time to figure it out. Last week 14 to 20 ft with heavy veggies held the most fish that were willing to bite for us.

[minnesotamusky]

We didn't have much luck yesterday. Caught a few small largmouth bass, alot of rock bass, one sunfish and one really small perch. All of that in ten hours of fishing. I couldn't keep the rock bass off of my orange fat rap. As soon as it hit the water, they hit it. I fished most of the day for muskies, not even a follow up. My dad was fishing for anything but muskies. We started the day fishing off of Tamarack Point and worked our way to the very west bay by the reeds. We fished alot of the sharp drop offs and humps. Towards the end we tried fishing the Flats and then trolled back to the boat landing at sundown. That is when I caught all of those rock bass. It was our first time on Miltona. I am definitely going back this fall. That is a very interesting lake. I like all the structure. We don't have any lakes like that in the Marshall area. I wish we did. All we have is large mud ponds with a few fish. How are most of the muskies caught on that lake? Where and how do they catch them? I talked to a guy at the landing and he said that he caught one, only 30", trolling for walleyes. Any advice? Thanks!

[ghotierman]

breezy and overcast days are great for throwing bucktail spinners. fall trolling can be productive on miltona, too. jake baits or big stick baits. look for the deep cabbage and work over the tops or the outside edges. a lot of bass fishermen will boat 'skis when jigging the deep weeds for largemouth. it is a fantastic fishery, great multi-species lake.

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