mille lacs 2020 Mille Lacs Lake Fishing Reports

[Norm1980]

hammered the perch ended up limiting on perch and 1 - 13" eye. I was about to give up on the lake, but the old girl gave me one of my best ice fishing days ever.

Were you using crappie minnows or waxies? jiggin or slip bobber??

[rodbuster70]

They were biting on crappie minnows and euro larvae.

[rodbuster70]

Jiggin with little spoons and slip bobber with crappie minnow with pink hook.

[Billy_Burbout]

nice reports. we fished sat from 12:30pm to 4:30pm and only caught one 22" eye. tough day for sure. started on 7 mile, then to seguchie, and finished on curly's. 32 to 35 feet. glad to see others had a good bite. not giving up yet

[fishin4fun85]

everything here was caught on fatheads and a variety of jigs

[fishergurl]

Went out Sat and fished from 8AM - 6PM. Went out of Twin Pines to 5 mile mud flat. Started out in 24ft of water, and moved around quite a bit, before settling in at 32ft of water. Took less than 3 min to catch a 14" walleye! In total we caught over 20 tulibee, 1 14" walleye, 1 16" walleye, and 1 Jumbo Perch. We started out with the Lindy Rattlin Flyer, then thought we would switch it up and maybe catch more perch, but that just slowed the bite, so the Rattlin Flyer went back on! Love them! Didn't even need a minnow head on to catch the tullies! We kept a few tulibees to try and bake, I don't have a smoker, so anyone have a good recipe to try?

[fishfearme]

You can smoke'em on your BBQ grill. Just keep the temp low and keep the fish away from the heat source.

[nels2444]

I'm headin up this weekend. Would like to get into some walleye and perch. Should I be using crappie minnows and fatheads? Or can a guy get away with just using crappie minnows?

[pushbutton]

last weekend you could have got away with using just fatheads...the perch were hitting the big bait...even the small shinners and rainbows. who knows what the weather change has done to the fish though, bring both.

[jerry91]

I am heading up to barnical bills this weekend. Wondering if any one can give me some kind of report. It's on the north side.

[jumbohog]

Hi I'm wondering if someone could pm me a decent easy access place to take my son for his forth birthday id like to get him on some big perch I've been fishing the flats and have a couple weeks now and have a few spots to go but not sure of I wanna track across the unknown so to speak with him in the truck thanks to any with any help

[trappingaddiction]

Most resorts on the lake will lead you to some decent perch fishing. Try Lybacks, they will tell you were the fish are biting, although the fishing has been slow (except the tullibees) the last couple days due to the cold, but will probably pick up tomorrow through the weekend into early next week with the warmer temperatures. Good luck, and report back.

[crappiegetter]

Most resorts on the lake will lead you to some decent perch fishing. Try Lybacks,

I would say the same I always take my little brother out with me and he is always getting some good jumbos in the 11-13inch range. we always fish off the graveyard road out of Lybacks.

[minndonn]

OK sitting on Mille out of Macs twin bay out about 6 miles and wathcing walleyes on the camera. Have two live minnows down, a red hook with red larva and a rattle jig with a minnow head. They swim around look at the bait, right up to it, even seem to brush against them but will not bite. HELP

[BrdHunter01]

OK sitting on Mille out of Macs twin bay out about 6 miles and wathcing walleyes on the camera. Have two live minnows down, a red hook with red larva and a rattle jig with a minnow head. They swim around look at the bait, right up to it, even seem to brush against them but will not bite. HELP

Sounds like mille lacs lake walleye ice fishing. It's classic!

[city slicker]

Sounds like mille lacs lake walleye ice fishing. It's classic!

X2 gotta love it!

[jerry91]

OK i am still wondering if some body can give me a report on how the north side of the lake has been doing. spicifically barnical bills.

[TravP]

Maybe call barnicles...

[mnfathead]

Heading out on the pond on Sat. a.m, gonna be going out on the west side, garrison area to bounce around some flats. Hows the offroad travel? and assuming we get into some tullibee, whats the best way to bake them? Have a smoker but would like to try and bake some aswell. Thanks

[jerry91]

trav,

the resorts will tell you what you want to hear. i am looking for what is really going on up there.

[18 inch Crappie]

trav,

the resorts will tell you what you want to hear. i am looking for what is really going on up there.

Go up fishing and let us know what is really going on. Thanks

[poolplayin]

minndonn, I have noticed that a minnow head on a buckshot ot jigging spoon will outfish a bobber all day long. The walleyes want something that moves more than a minnow on a hook. Just my opinion, I usually have a jigging rod and a bobber set up down, and the jig outfishes the bobber every time for me. I'll be heading up there on sunday I think to slam some eyes and big perch.

[broman]

trav,

the resorts will tell you what you want to hear. i am looking for what is really going on up there.

Most will tell you the truth about the bite. Paul at Appeldoorns lets people know if fishing is bad or if it is good. As does Lybacks on his site. I don't know about the others, but most will let you know how it's going.

As far as for me, this is the best year ever for me. I haven't been skunked for walleye (not all were keepers) on a trip yet. I've been up there 4 time so far and going up today. This it the year to fish Mille Lacs, it's the best it's been in the past 5 years.

[Acemac]

by the time people can tell you the fishing is good its bad again.

[nels2444]

Hey guys,

When is the walleye bite? And do the purch bite all day?

[monstermoose78]

the perch bite all day and the walleyes to if your in deep water

[nels2444]

Thanks Monster Moose, Would you suggest something like 20-28 fow if I'm targeting walleyes?

[monstermoose78]

i have been doing deeper then that. 30+ but every day is differnt so try shallow early and move deep during the day then move back shallower for the night bite. I just got word I will be up there tomorrow with my cousin. He wants perch so I think we will hit some deep gravel during the day if that does not work then off for the mud in hopes they are out there

[eyeslayer20]

My old man has been goin up to mille lacs for years now...while i justed started 10 years ago i have noticed if you drill holes and find active fish no matter what depth/time of the day you are at you will catch fish. We have a house out of Terry's for a long time now and during the day I wll drill holes upon holes until i find active fish. I dont know if its the same for everyone else, but drilling lots of holes is key for me.

[TravP]

I fished some deep mud at the bottom of the break today. We caught a decent amount of jumbos(had to work for them) and I lost one walleye in the hole. Tullibees were around, again. A great day to be on the pond for sure!

Minnow heads or waxies on a spoon or slick jig worked best for me.