Gonna be at Father Hennepin this weekend so I will try doing some trolling. Have acouple of new jointed shad raps I wanna try out. Are the walleyes still biting on leeches and slips?
I'll be up on Saturday to test the day bite and hopefully the night bite. I was planning to start around your house, so I'm sure I'll see you. You might not recognize me in my new rig, but I'll get extra close.
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I trolled a lot over the weekend and only 1 fish to show for it. Marked a ton of fish Saturday morning but, just couldn't get them to bite. Went back to the same area Sunday morning didn't hardly mark a fish. Talked to acouple of guys that were on a launch for half a day and only caught 4 perch and a rockbass. I just don't understand Mille Lacs lake at all. I think the guys that actually do catch fish are either lucky or just fish the lake a lot and know where to go to catch them.
We were out Saturday and did pretty well it sounds like. I really wanted to catch some fish on the rock/gravel transitions near Hunter's but couldn't get them to go. We marked alot of fish but only caught perch and a Northern. We headed out to the mud and off the third flat we checked, found a nice school of fish. I made the call that we were marking too many fish to not be catching them. Two seconds later one rod doubled over and a minute later we had a triple on our hands. 2 for the box and 1 over. It was already 4pm, but we fished until dark and ended up keeping 5, a half dozen nice perch, a couple nice northerns, and 3 or 4 walleyes in the slot. We were running shad raps on leadcore basically making circles and figure 8s between 3 small mud flats. The new boat trolled incredibly and we managed to get rid of that new smell and replace it with something a little more fishy. Actually we got a 7-8 lb. northern that made it a little too fishy. We were going to do some night trolling, but we forgot the headlamps.
-- Edited by Fife on Monday 21st of September 2009 09:20:54 AM
Yep, it took awhile but we broke it in. The first fish in the box was a perch, then the Northern got slime on the floor, but we finally ended up with a nice mess of walleyes and perch. Actually we had two walleyes for the box flopping all over the boat as we quickly prepared to net the third to complete a triple. I have a couple tweaks to make, but next season should be fun.
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Humana Insurance Representative-Brainerd and Mille Lacs Area
We were going to do some night trolling, but we forgot the headlamps.
