2020 Alexandria-Miltona area Fishing Reports ( Lake conditions)

[MollyP]

By the way, I haven't thanked you for helping me out here. Thank You. This is our first real vacation and I want the kids to remember it for ever.

[fishnowworknever]

Google search:

mn dnr lake finder

Search for the lake, then select "Go" under "Lake Map"

[carpmanjake]

Going up to alexandria for a week has anybody fished victoria for a while.

same advice i gave mollyP. fish the weedlines and find fish. pike, crappies, bass, even walleyes are holding on weedlines.

[rblakes09]

I will be going fishing on Lake Maple next week and was wondering if the fish are biting. I have only ice fished maple and dont know any spots in the summer time

[carpmanjake]

so yesterday, what was suppose to be a day of just taking the trim off my car, prepping for decals. what we (me and drRodey) found is that i need a new power steering rack, oil pan gasket, and front and rear gasket valves...

after finding out all that, i needed to escape, so i went fishing. i was quite happy with the results.

her and her buddy from just a few minutes before

the release

they were both on lake le homme dieu. a fellow FMer was going through when i hooked the big girl. quite a fight!

floating a jig and minnow down through current in 3 FOW

[joep]

can any one give me the word on fishing for walleye & pike/musky in ottertail lake ?- Alexander lake? rush lake . and or near verndale mn . i want to buy a home in verndale but need to know some advise on the fishing in the mn area>? thanks waiting on alny replies at all. thanks a million!!

walleye man 66

[hhguide]

Ottertail has been on all summer long! I would head there if your heading to that area. right on the edge of the breaks in 9 to 12 feet of water jigs or pulling cranks and going fast about 1 mph to 2 mph good luck! If you want to stay in our area we have been catching a good number of fish!

Here is my report for the area.With the cooling temperatures the walleye fishing has picked up in the alexandria and should be getting into the fall bite soon. With that said the water temperatures are in the mid to low 60s and should be colling even more with the cold weather that we are having.

Walleyes in the area are still in the weeds for the most part. The best depth is either going to be on the inside weed edge from like 5 to 8 feet of water or the outside weed edge which on our lakes in the area is from 15 to 21 feet of water. Some fish are starting to move alittle deeper and are being caught in the 21 to 24 foot range. For the most part the walleyes have switched back over to minnows fatheads, suckers, shiners, or big redtails. Most people and myself are using jigs and or some sort of lindy rigs. One other technique that should really shoot off soon and has been doing well all summer but the fall trolling bite after dark! One of the best times of the year to catch huge fish on cranks. look in the 5 to 11 foot range trolling on the inside weededge of over the tops of the weeds for your best luck. For walleyes this time of year I like to go fast roughly 1 mph alittle slower and alittle faster depending on the fish that day

Crappies and sunfish have slowed some but overall people are catching a good number of crappies in the 12 to 14 foot range with twister tails tipped with minnows or nothing at all. The best colors have been either white, black or pink! With that being said the later and colder it gets the more the crappies and panfish should move to the green weeds. If you can get and find green weeds that is where the fish will be.

For northerns sucker minnows with hair jigs well do you best. look in the weeds in roughly 7 to 18 feet swim your jig over the tops and in the weeds and you will catch some fish. Bright colored hair jigs or black seem to work best.

If people have any questions or concerns please feel free to post questions on here or email me at anytime!

With the fall Fishing I also wanted to make a quick point to make sure and not fish in deep water. Anyone can go into that deep water and catch little fish all day. I urge you not to do that for the safety of the fisheries. If you truly want to catch big fish in the fall go shallow trust me the colder it gets the shallower I move and the bigger the fish. Good luck to all those heading out.

Here are just a few pictures from the past couple weeks:

As many of you know if you have the touch that day you have the touch Matt caught 3 fish over 22.5 inches! Along with a few other clients other days with big fish!

[Prairiefire]

Hit the water at about 12:30 today. Flat calm gorgeous day. By 2:00 our scoop of fatheads was pretty much gone and my 5 year old had 4 of the 6 we kept in the box. What a great day. You have to love fall fishing in the Alex area.

[hhguide]

The Kid has got talent! Keep him fishing for those walleyes! Dont tell him about the green carp, I know how you like to fish for those! haha

[fuzzyray]

Fished Ida and Miltona this last weekend. Water temps were around 57-58 deg. I think the warm weather has confused the walleyes. They should be bulking up but we only found a few smaller fish in deeper water (30-35 fow). 2 small ones Sat on Ida, and 6 Sun on Miltona but most were around 13in. Nice to be out but bring on the cold weather. Talk to some other fisherman who found the same...small fish. Hope the rest of you had better luck.

[hhguide]

Well guys the Fall bite has been unreal around the alexandria area. I find it amazing that any lake that you go to and fish has good numbers of fish in the fall and good size. I have fished 6 different lakes in the area and caught walleyes on every one of them. The best depth has ranged some but overall the best depth has been 16 to 24 feet of water. Then as the sun goes down or if your out in the morning go shallow. Some of the best walleyes have come in 4 to 9 feet of water. If you find good green weeds your going to catch fish. The best presentation has been a jig and a minnow. My best color ranges everyday but some sort of chart or white has been good. All of these are tipped with live bait. I have used some plastics but just dont have enough confidence in it to fish it consistantly when people are catching 3 to 1 versus me. If we are going after bigger fish we have used bigger redtails and they sure work well around this time!! Most of the lakes have turned over. Hopefully we can get a even bigger one here one of these days. We have had a few more on that have gotten off that we have seen and are bigger but thats fishing!

Here are just a few pictures from the past week to 10 days:

Nate with a 24 incher.

Nate with a 23 and 1/2 incher almost the identical fish both caught about 15 minutes apart.

Steve with 23 incher.

If anyone has questions or concerns feel free to contact me at anytime.

[muskiefisher05]

How is the ice going is anybody out there alot. If so is anybody fishing lake victoria and cathching anything.

[ALEX EYES]

Put the small house out on geneva last night. There was a good 10" of ice. Had been catching some nice eyes were I had been walking out, hopefully they will be were the house is now. If we don't end up getting to much snow tonight/tommorrow I will be putting the big house out Sunday.

[peterson999]

Are any of the lakes drivable if say I showed up with a trailblazer and a portable this weekend?

[teach'n'fish]

Anybody having any luck on Le Homme Dieu? I fished yesterday and didn't have much luck. Looking for panfish or walleyes, whichever will bite. Thanks

[muskiefisher05]

anybody catching any fish anywhere.

[WallyGader]

Caught a limit of 15-20" walleyes last night on a area lake, bite was from 5:00 to 7:00.

[fishduck]

Fished Le Homme Dieu Fri-Sun. A few small sunnies and 1 tiny walleye was all. Lots of small eyes biting out there, 6-8 inchers. Ice was in great shape 12+ inches, can drive anywhere.

[kobear]

So we aren't the only ones besieged by tiny walleyes on Le Homme Dieu. Poor things must be starving. Sad to say I saw a two man limit leaving the ice yesterday, biggest walleye was 10" MAYBE.

Christmas you know, nice to say you got a limit while you were home.

[Mihcael]

I'm from the southern part of Minnesota around the Mankato area. We are dealing with the issue of a lot of slush and water on top of the ice. Not able to pull our house out have to walk out if you want to fish. So i was wondering how good the ice is around Alex? Would i be able to drive out pulling a pretty good sized permanent house?

[Chad Peterson]

I'm from the southern part of Minnesota around the Mankato area. We are dealing with the issue of a lot of slush and water on top of the ice. Not able to pull our house out have to walk out if you want to fish. So i was wondering how good the ice is around Alex? Would i be able to drive out pulling a pretty good sized permanent house?

Mihcael,

Was out this morning and there is about 6-8 of snow with good ice. I would be careful out there if there is no plowed roads.

Welcome to MF, glad to have you here.

Sniffer

[bowhunterrj]

Just an fyi to everybody the ice on all area lakes is not even in the last week we have came across a few spots that are only around 9in while 50 yds away you have 14. These samples were taken from lake miltona.Today a fullsize truck dropped in the whole passenger side in and they were lucky to get it out without any harm only thing is the truck doesn't want to run. There is allot of water on the ice so everybody be careful.

[terrible_fisherman]

A truck went through on Miltona today?? Down by me the rain knocked down most of the ice and then slush froze up. Did you guys not get the rain up there? Still lots of snow and slush on the lakes? Around saint cloud you can go just about anywhere with a wheeler.

[bowhunterrj]

Yep a truck partialy went down today he was on the way to check his house out I was told. Pretty tough moving around out there all slush under the snow many 4 wheel drives getting stuck. I got lucky and pulled my house the day before the storm. Good luck to all and be safe.

[Finlander]

Got lucky and blocked up my house on Osakis friday as the rain/slush went over my first set of 4x4 blocks.

Now the water/slush is 2" up on the new set of 4x4 blocks when I left yesterday afternoon.

So now the house is 8" above the ice from the fisrt time I set the house on the ice with only 2" to go before I have to re-block it.

[timjones]

Was going to move my house today but there was so much water and slush in the area I wanted to put it I said forget it. Have to find a different spot. Drove through several areas that the slush and water was pretty deep. Glad I was in the Polaris Ranger and not my truck. Don't think the truck would have made it.

[Finlander]

It took me an hour to knock the frozen slush off from under my truck as the slush built up and made the truck one big ice block.

The transmission linkage froze and the wheels were totally locked in place.

Hope this below zero temps freeze this slop.

[carpmanjake]

hey everyone! long time no talk!

been quite busy lately. so i havent been able to get on. i have been doing quite a bit of fishing since the ice was barely thick enough to walk on

been on a pretty consistant bite of 10-11" crappie. with an average of 1 or 2 pike a day. and a nice walleye every few days.

doug, my stepdad's dad, caught a 29"er one night. the biggest of mine so far is 18. but it seems the big walleyes always bite when im working

but anyway here is a pic of early ice. back when the lake just froze over.

[crothmeier]

My father, cousin and I are heading up that way for the weekend. looking for a list of lakes that are somewhat easily accessible. not looking for secret hot spots, just an idea of what is fish-able, or drive-able as we are not from the area. We are more than likely starting on Minnewaska, other lakes of interest we have are Mary, Reno, Ida and Miltona.

Thank-you greatly in advance for any info.

[Chad Peterson]

I would say that Minnawaska will be a sure bet for driving and catching fish. There is a lot of lakes that had good plowed roads, and now they are not so good.

Sniffer