mille lacs 2020 Mille Lacs Lake Fishing Reports

[deets22]

pulled leadcore this weekend sunday was a good day. were only able to get out for about 3 hours picked up 13 walleyes 7 for the box. hot color was fire tiger followed by dalmation. ran between 30 to 35 feet of water with baits down 3 and 4 colors.

[TallPaull]

Went out on Saturday evening and found some fish. My wife caught her PB (26") and my 8 year old son outfished both of us. We caught 15 fish and kept 3. We had a handful of small fish and threw back 6 over 23". Fished in 17' of water on the rocks with a bobber and leech. GREAT EVENING!

[crappiegetter]

Was out sat, sun, and monday I have learned I am not a good walleye fisherman. First time ever fishing in the summer and I couldn't find walleye, tried everything I know which isn't much about walleye. Think I might just stick to bass fishing.

[MidCoast]

My buddies and I went fishing this past weekend. Walleyes were biting real good that I thought it was Spring. Trolling cranks did the trick...

[Rippinlip]

Took the wife and daughter out fot the night out on a rented pontoon on Thursday night and with just a little knowledge of fishing I was able to put us on some fish and good ones at that.

Ended up with 2 keeper Walleyes, several Jumbo Perch and a few released Smallies(not much size), but always fun!!

Think wind and structure!

Mark

[Buck_Hunter04]

Went fishing all day yesterday. 5-10 mph wind my butt. We got beat up pretty good in our 14 ft mirrorcraft but we still had a great time. Pretty good mix of fish trolling cranks with leadcore in 15-25 ft of water. Smallies were absolutely smacking the lure as well as the Walleyes. Walleyes were puking up perch. If I had to guess they looked like a #7 rapala size. FIRETIGER was the ticket.

[iceman16]

we fished leadcore friday and saturday on the flats.friday ended up with 6 eyes biggest was 26" and a 38" pike. saturday nothing. need to find a place that has the trolling book to pinpoint my depths. had a blast it was my first time pulling leadcore.

iceman

[trappingaddiction]

we fished leadcore friday and saturday on the flats.friday ended up with 6 eyes biggest was 26" and a 38" pike. saturday nothing. need to find a place that has the trolling book to pinpoint my depths. had a blast it was my first time pulling leadcore.

iceman

Mills Fleet Farm carries them.

[fishnowworknever]

Going to be 3 of us in my boat this weekend, got two leadcore setups and thinking about pulling a planer board off one side as well. Do you usually use a segmented leadcore setup on planers or snap weights etc?

We'd be pulling cranks, possibly switch to spinners if needed.

Thanks

[iceman16]

every store from mille lacs to the cities are sold out. fleet farm had the ones for mono and fireline but not leadcore.

iceman

[TravP]

every store from mille lacs to the cities are sold out. fleet farm had the ones for mono and fireline but not leadcore.

iceman

That same book has leadcore info in it too.

[iceman16]

gotcha. thanks for the info. i talked to him on the phone and he said he didnt see leadcore in there but i should have known better cause he sounded alittle clueless. thanks again.

iceman

[fishnowworknever]

We were up this past Saturday on the mud flats and did pretty well in the morning and evening. Around lunch we headed south to try and find some small mouth. After a couple hours we headed North for the evening bite which payed off.

Everything came from 30' - 35', pulling lead 3-4 colors, jointed fire tiger and jointed blue/silver were the hot ticket.

Ended up with 12 eyes, 8 over 20", biggest @ 27.5", 4 keepers, 2 jumbo perch. We had 6 misses as well.

I think if we had stayed North all day and searched we could have gotten a few more, all in all it was a fun day.

[trappingaddiction]

Did some fishing last week and was catching quite a few perch, with some nice jumbos, some nice eater eyes (quite a few 16-19.5 inchers), some over eyes (biggest was a 25 incher), pike, and some smallies. A couple of the walleyes we kept had a few crawfish in them, and a couple perch also did. The majority of the fish were caught trolling shallow rocks in the evening in that 7-14 ft range using #5 Shad Raps and #7 Tail Dancers , but we also caught some fish trolling lead core in 32-37 ft. Seemed like we would pick at least one decent walleye on each pass over a shallow rock hump, but were also getting some on the edges of underwater rock points. Best color Shad Raps were Perch and Crawdad, and the best colored Tail Dancer was also Perch. Good luck!

[Buck_Hunter04]

Fished the north end today to avoid some of the wind and waves. Lots of boats fishing about 28 feet of water with leadcore. We caught 3 fish all day. Marked tons of fish, just couldn't get em to bite Hope everyone else did better than us.

[MnEyeCatcher]

Went out Saturday the waves were crazy but managed 30 fish got 2 limits 5 0vers 20,21,23,23,24, and 1 jumbo. 2nd time trolling lead very fun once you figure it out. Hot lure was a gold and orange hot and tot!! Found them in 32ft in between the north flats.

[TallPaull]

Fished last weekend with some success pulling lead core in and around Otto's. Saturday ended with 5 fish with 4 being over 20". All were caught with a perch crankbait. Sunday I didn't even try due to the south end of the lake looking like the ocean (HUGE WAVES). Fished Monday morning and ended with 4 fish (2 keepers and 2 overs) and they were caught with a gold crankbait. Can't wait to get back up next weekend.

[bigstick56]

So what is the best plan of attack to boat some perch up at the pond this time of year? Bottom Bouncers with spinners leech / Crawler? Crankbaits? Thanks for any info.

[Derik_Walcheski]

A bottom bouncer and a spinner tipped with a crawler has been very productive in about 15 to 25 feet, or a small 1/32oz jig tipped with a crawler under a thill float will work well!

I have also used a small crank trolled around 1.6 mph and pulled a lot of nice jumbos that way. good luck

[TallPaull]

Fished yesterday from 7am-3pm pulling lead on the deaper edges of Otto's. Perch and gold were the successful colors. Only landed 3 fish all were over (23", 24" and 26.5"). Hoping to have more success on Saturday night and Sunday.

[fishnowworknever]

On the North end, wow there were some huge rollers out there..managed 7/9 keepers before noon between 2 of us. All were caught 27'-35' off the flats pulling lead. Fire tiger and blue/silver shad were the hot lures. They were all decent 15" - 19.5" with 2 over - 22.5" and 25" were the biggest.

[northriver]

Fished along the south west shore next to some rocks managed one 18 inch walleye, 4 pound smallmouth and a perch in 10ft water pulling a perch shad rap had enough of the wind by 1130 did much better last weekend. What a difference a week makes had my ice fishing gear on today and last week had to get off the lake by 4 it was so hot.

[Mike_Top]

Fished yesterday out of isle from 9am-4pm, using crankbaits in 8-15 feet. Caught 2 walleyes right away, 21" and 17", followed by a smallie. Thought we had 'em dialed in, then nothing after that. Hopefully by next wknd more walleyes will by moving in shallow!

[TallPaull]

Spent the day today from 9am-2pm in the rain on the lake. Ended with 7 walleye being caught (4 keepers and 3 to big). Keepers were caught in 19-21' of water and the big fish were caught in 29-31' of water on crankbaits. Tried every color and once the switch was made to fire tiger all the fish were caught. Fun/wet day on the lake! Looking forward to next weekend.

[bassNspear]

any newer reports??

THinking of going out monday or tuesday

[TechFisher78]

A buddy and I went out last evening and stayed out through most of the night. The evening went well as we boated a few nice walleyes pulling cranks with lead core on the flats. Then the wind came up. The weather said the wind would be 3 mph from s/se. It was more like 23 from the ss/e and we had 4 foot rollers on the flats. That pretty much took us off our game and we didn't boat any more fish the rest of the night. Pi$$ed me off to tell you the truth, but that's fishing!

[CrowRiverRat83]

Yeah, it seems the big lake forgets to listen to the wind forecasts, and does her own thing! At least you caught some.

[iceman16]

fished yesterday out of isle for about 3 hours boated 4. one 23" and three keepers. three keepers were caught shallow rocks and the 23" caught deep pulling leadcore.

iceman

[TallPaull]

Fished Saturday night and Sunday on the south end (Isle/Wahkon/Izatys). Saturday night we were on the rocks and landed 6 fish with 2 being keepers (2 smaller fish and a 24" and 25"). We were fishing in 9-11 feet of water with a jig and minnow. Pink and yellow jigs were the ticket. Sunday we pulled lead all over the south end. Early in the morning we were getting fish in the 19-21' and in the afternoon we were in 25-29'. Colors varied based off the cloud cover (perch, fire tiger, gold and silver). We ended the day with 11 fish being caught (5 keepers).

[The Grebe]

We were on the west side Friday night (Had the ladies with)so we were bobber fishing in 13 feet over rocks. We got 3 into the boat, 21-21-22, had another large one up to the side and missed 2 other bites.

We only fished for about an hour and a half and quit about 1/2 hour before I figured it would really get good. Girls wanted to be off the lake before dark. Oh well, we had fun.

The fish wouldn't take a crawler, or a minnow, they were after the leeches and that was that!