The month of June is upon us here on Mille Lacs Lake and the walleye fishing continues to provide some pretty good action. The sand breaks on the north end continue to provide action along with the flats on the northern one third of the lake. The water temperature has now reached the upper 50's on windy days and over 60 on calm sunny days! We have also experienced our first bug hatch of the summer season. The aggravation factor depends on which way the wind is blowing......Walleye’s are being caught on long lindy rigs fished slow at 0.5- 0.6 mph. Large and jumbo leeches have been the bait of choice. The crawler blade bite is slow going for most that have tried it so far. The evening bobber bite is also continuing to provide some good action for the fisherman. Those having luck with the evening bobber bite have been fishing in 8-14 fow in the rocks along shore. The fish cleaning at the Red Door Resort over the weekend compared to the opening weekend success. If the amount of fish guts from the cleaning shack is an indication of numbers of fish caught the weekend was outstanding! Many of the fish being caught have been over the 18 inch protected slot on Mille Lacs. This still allows for some pretty fun action for our guests along with a number of limits being reported at the resort. As for my catch rate this past weekend. Well let’s just say "that I was humbled by the big lake." I spent the weekend fishing in the Minnesota Tournament Trail event held Saturday and another one day event on Sunday. My partner and I brought in one lone tourney fish on Saturday weighing in at 1.84 lbs and had no fish in the box on Sunday. That was a first for this tourney angler in many years. We caught fish, some really nice fish at times, but not the size fish that we could or would have kept in our limit. Oh well, as they say - it’s still fishing!
pic added is a 27 1/2 incher caught bobber fishing an edge of a flat!
-- Edited by Bobber on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 04:58:07 AM
I'm amazed at the amoumt of over 18, but under 19's we're getting. It's a crime to teach a kid how to fish and then tell him he can't keep his first big walleye, cuz it was a half inch TOO BIG! Don't even make sense to me!
I'm amazed at the amoumt of over 18, but under 19's we're getting. It's a crime to teach a kid how to fish and then tell him he can't keep his first big walleye, cuz it was a half inch TOO BIG! Don't even make sense to me!
The lake is loaded with many different sizes of fish which is a good sign. As a tournament guy, I really hope the slot goes to 20 inches this summer. I really don't care to keep those 18-20 inch fish, but I know we would have been done fishing by noon both days of the tournament this weekend if the slot was 20 inches. No matter what we did catch alot of fish this weekend, so I can't complain about that. I can't wait to go "fun" fishing up there soon.
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We have caught fish in Malmo Bay, but it is so hard catching so many that are over this slot size (at is so small) I will be home in two weeks and hope that the bug hatches are not too crazy.
Thanks for your good report, but it is very hard filling out in slot size fish right now. They are are all catch and release at 21-22 inches even in the Malmo Bay Bomber Boat. Only my nephew Dan came up with that big 29 inch walleye last week.
Well let’s just say "that I was humbled by the big lake".
Man do I know that feeling too, Bob! Tourney fishing is a whole different animal! You will get 'em next time. Thanks for the report. The gut buckets never lie.
When the politicians get us to the point of a government shutdown will there still be a "slot" with the entire DNR layed off! I can here it now...."Its no slot Sunday!"
Don't even make sense to me!
