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I am going to mille lacs this weekend and I was wondering where people are catching smallmouth and what they are useing to catch them. It is my first time fishing smallmouth on the lake.

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2 weeks ago we spent a fair amount of time working the SE end of the lake. There are plenty of rock shorelines and shallow reefs to fish. Best baits that worked for us were jigs/plastic and Mepps spinners. A good friend took a 21 1/2" beauty and after some great pics she was released. He is going to get a repro done this summer.
Good Luck!
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My brother alphid and i were up yesterday on teh south side cove bay and wahkon shorelines fishing smallies. my top 5 smallies were around 21 pounds! 19+", 20 1/2" 20 3/4", alphids best 5 were about 18 pounds, just an awesome day.

The fish were relating to the biggest boulders off flats, depth was anywhere b/t 1 and 8 feet, and we were dropping senkos in brown/black patterns next to them, they seemed more aggressive with this color than others and other baits like tubes of similar color. the fish would still show themselves with the other baits and colors, but they were less nervy to hit them.

After a while of not finding big rocks holding them, we noticed smallies rolling on the surface all over and we would cast to them catching them that way. seemed they were all in teh area hitting on what we think may-flies or 1" fry that seemed to be in different areas near the surface. We threw senkos and tubes in the vicinity of the roll and would catch the fish almost immediately on the fall of the bait. smallmouth season is here, i just love those fish!

let me know how you all do, i don't think i will be up there for about a week or 2 now, later!

catchin'

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Glad to hear you had success on the smallies!

[This message has been edited by Mykal (edited 06-18-2003).]

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