This afternoon I made my first trip out to the mud!! While having coffee this morning I was trying to decide what flat to head out too. Well my first stop was a winner!!! I had my first holes drilled by 12:15pm and my first mud flat walleye by 12:30pm!! not a bad start I thought!!
I started drilling just off the downside of the flat and continued on up on top of the flat. The first fish came in a hole that was just on top in 26 fow. I continued to catch a number of fish before moving on top a bit more. The fish seamed to be pretty active on this brite sunny day we had today. I caught my fish today on a 1/8oz. go-devil in the orange/yellow color!!
The perch were active also, coloring the bottom of my MarCum at times. I did not have any biters only some small nibblers!!! Once the walleye came into sight, off went the perch. The walleye ran from 17 inches up to my biggest that went 24 inches or so. I came off the lake early this afternoon since this was my first trip out and I wanted to get home before dark.
I did run across acouple of slushy spots out around 3 miles or so. Now that I have made a track out through it, the slush will freeze tonite and be ok tomorrow. The area around the flat I was fishing had a few holes drilled on it already from the other day. The weight of the snow out in this area had causes the top of the flat to flood alittle. I know I was carefull as to where I parked my snowmoblie to not allow it to freeze the track up. That is one concern you need to have with the use of a snowmoblie. Nothing worst than a frozen track out in the middle of Mille Lacs Lake. I did notice a group south of where I was this afternoon. So there are others making their way out to the mud. The ice depth on the flat I was fishing measured 11-12 inches. This area had more ice than the area I had been fishing closer to shore. What this just tells me is how much variation we have with our ice thickness. You need to be carefull out there and check with the resort prior to making you drive out. Hunters Point now has a staked path out to the Boot Flat from Hunters. Once this gets some traffic on it and it gets packed down it will make a better ride out for this distance to be traveled.
I am heading up for the day Friday. I will be at hunters by 8AM I plan on fishing in the AM and taking a break to look at some Perm houses. I will fish the evening bite and may spend the night up there (somewhere) if I find the fish. I am planning on bring the sled. The track freezing is somthing I will keep in mind.
