Opener Fishing Report - Mille Lacs Lake Fishing (Fishing Reports, Events, Tournament Information and more)

Doug Ertl · Website Admin

Opener Fishing Report

Doug Ertl · Website Admin

Tony has updated Podcast report he did Sunday. Sounds like he had the fish going during the day also. Wish I would have caught this report before I went out Sunday.

Muskymadness · Veteran Member

Nicely done Doug! good start to the season!

We were on Gull and the weather did not cooperate to good. We ended up with three nice Walleyes, a real nice Jumbo, and four Northerns over 20 inches. The Notherns went back, but were fun to catch.

johnny5 · Member

Pretty slow for us, fish we did get were fri night rocks 6ft, sat was terrible, sunday sand was good in 16-20ft

mj54 · Member

We had a good weekend of fishing, even with the weather Saturday. Saturday was okay but Sunday was really good. 2 guys with 22 fish, 10 keepers and others up to 28". Most of the fish came on lindy rigs. Color of hook seemed to be a big factor for us. The best time for us was Sunday noon to 4pm in 18-20 fow.

fishstix · Member

Fished the north end all day Sat. It was the best day my boat has seen on mille lacs. We boated 22 with 9 going in the box for three guy's. Most of our fish came from 12-13' range pulling lindys .3-.5 mph. We did catch a few trolling thunderstick jr's. Bad weather but the fish made up for it.

MCallies · Malmo Bay Bomber

Saturday was terrible for Malmo Mike and Malmo Tom -- But Wild Ass Walleye nephew Dan saved our bacon and got two nice walleyes (Saturday) for our family.

Sunday, better weather but I am still skunked on my new boat. Fishing is NOT fair of course -- They catch them all around me and the walleyes do not like my leech or whatever?

3rd Day is the charm: Monday morning - Malmo Mike gets 3 nice walleyes and Tom and Dan each get one more nice legal Willy Walleye. What a great Morning.

We are sun burndt and have walleye filets end of story but we worked hard for them after a crummy Ssturday!

Willy · Member

Our opener wasn't too bad. We were happy with what we caught for the amount of time we actually put in on the water. We had our best luck on the rocks in 15-17 fow with bobbers. We weren't able to do much rigging because the trolling motor mount broke Saturday. Without the trolling motor, drifting wasn't managable in the wind. Saturday night from 8-12:00a was the best. We picked up 5 keepers and some overs. We totaled around 25-30 fish between the four of us for the weekend.

-- Edited by Willy on Monday 16th of May 2011 10:11:53 PM

Fife · Formica Flat Vet

Nice fish Willy. Good to meet you this weekend. I'll be up in a couple weeks to try put a dent in that wood pile.

Sutty · Member

We had a good opener, my first on Mille lacs. We went crappie fishing during the day and went walleye fishing during the evening. First night we boated 20 with 6 eaters. Sunday we caught 12 with a couple eaters. We caught our fish on the east side shallow rocks and avoided the bumper boats up north.

-- Edited by Sutty on Tuesday 17th of May 2011 04:27:34 PM

SemperFI · Member

This was my 3rd opener on the big pond and by far, my best. Fished the south end, waited for a weather window after Midnight Friday and hit the shallow rocks. Pulled some nice keepers and fried for breakfast with eggbake. Went our again, on another weather window late Saturday night. Pulled a few to send home with some buddies. Weather was better by late Sunday afternoon and was able to start pulling lindys. Picked up some pigs that had to go back.

Fished the NE side on Monday had a great day keeping 6, boating 10 with an awesome 26" pig.

Doug Ertl · Website Admin

I added a short video clip. wasn't too prepared with the pro hero camera. forgot it was on my lid for awhile then filmed a bunch of crap, then the battery went when I needed it. confuse Oh well, next time.