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Musky Fishing on Mille Lacs


Cliff

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Hi all, I am heading up to Mille Lacs next week for 1 day of musky fishing, for the first time. I've only been to ML once before, for walleyes, so I am a newbie to ML. I'm not looking for any secret spots, but can anybody give me some suggestions as to musky fishing on ML? Are muskies on ML rock fish, weeds, both? Do they respond to topwater lures well, or are they more spinner and jerk-bait bait fish. Can somebody point me to good places to look for cabbage beds, reeds, and other weed beds I can try out? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Hey Cliff, welcome to the site first off. The spots to try early on in the season like we are right now are going to be on the South East side of the lake. Namely, Vineland bay. Find some weeds and fish em hard. You are going to want to fish big baits for the most part, but burning a smaller buck might turn a fish or two for you as well. These fish are heavily pressured and you will see a lot of boats out there throwing for them. Early morning and late evening are obviously going to be the best daylight hours and fishing in the night up there is big.

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Hi cliff I think if you only got one day you might want to stay on the east side a few good spots close together. as polarsus stated work the weeds cowgirls,dogs,topwater, as far as spots sunset,twin,isle,wakon, bays all hold weeds and fish. good luck post a report. we were up there this weekend slow!! seen alot of fish no eat.

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Cliff,

Musky fishing has been slow so far. Seriously, the best action I'm hearing of is folks who are fishing for bass and walleye are getting muskies on that are breaking or biting them off. To me,that means they're up for smaller baits. We've been using some larger baits, but seem to be catching only walleyes and northerns on the musky baits. Getting follows from the muskies, but that's it.

Your best bet is to fish the southern bays. Weeds in Vineland are spotty right now. Great weeds in Isle bay. Some nice weeds in Wahkon bay as well.

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