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Hey guys I moved here from maine. GF is a native Minnesotan parents are aging she wanted to move home to help care for them. I grew up watching and reading the In Fisherman shows and magazines so I was excited to come here. We have great fishing in Maine but we don't have walleyes, pike, musky, or big catfish. Turns out her dad has a lot at mille lacs and we are going this week. So what I need to know is just a general lay of the land. Like where to fish for different species. Also if anyone would like a buddy to go fishing with I am willing to trade beer for knowledge ;) The lot is on the eastern side of the lake towards the middle. We are purchasing a hotel down in duck hunting paradise in the Southwestern part of the state (the hotel has a duck cleaning room) so any fishing friends I make get the friend discount if they come duck hunting  



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Howdy Chris, (Thor5734)

The Eastside of Mille Lacs offers a tremendous range of fishing and several top resorts oriented to the Mille Lacs fishermen of all experience levels. Everyone has their personal favorites for fishing and resort preferences. The walleye fishing is still incredible although the lake is under serious challenge these days.

First, Mille Lacs is a big lake and you MUST respect it. It can get rough and storms can surprise you. Get some help from a good launch/guide service first as Mille Lacs can kick your butt if you are not prepared.  Here are my suggestions...

So...You cannot go wrong with Nitti's Hunter's Point resort and launch service to get acquainted with the lake's Eastside. The launch captains and owners are great folks. Another favorite resort of mine is Red Door Resort up on the north shore of the lake. Just as for Bobber. Agate Bay and Fisher's Resort both have long history and are very good resorts.

At this point in the season, the best fishing tends to be on the mud flats or nine mile flat or north flats; in the spring I fish the sand / gravel formations in my area on Malmo Bay and Agate Bay. Get some assistance on this at Nitti's Hunter Point Resort launches or best of all take a guided trip with Tony Roach...

Those are all good places to gain knowledge and experience the lake. That way you have a great time and do it right. Good Luck, Malmo Mike MM



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Thanks for the tips I really appreciate them. We are coming up there with a boat but plan on doing a launch for the whole experience. I've been reading around and it seems there's amazing small mouth fishing and the patterns I used in Maine will work in mille lacs. Perhaps I will catch some walleye and pike in the process. All my gear is bass gear so not sure I'm suited to hunt pike and muskies yet. Seems live bait is the ticket for walleyes and leeches (yuck) especially. I'm not a live bait guy BUT I also am a catch and release guy. Don't care for fish prefer burgers ;)

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Welcome to Mille Lacs, there, Chris. Alot of world class fish in this lake if you know where to find 'em. It sounds like you moved down by Maple Woods down by Agate Bay. I know the area. 

#1 Places to launch: Hunter's Point, Agate Bay or Fisher's. (Don't use the public accesses, cuz they don't dredge and they aren't  kept up for rocks. If you want to grind the bottom of your boat down, that's how you do it.)

#2 Always follow the great information on great websites like this one the pros here on the lake offer to ya for nothing but the time it takes to read it. Or watch it.

#3 Learn Minnesota patience for catching fish when they're not biting and develop skills at figuring out what the fish ARE biting on. ESPECIALLY WALLEYE. Remember that ANYONE can catch 'em when they're committin' suicide. Or with a gillnet. But it takes a FISHERMAN to catch 'em when nobody else is.

 



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So we fished 3 days. I focused on smallies we stuck to the rocks basically going marker bouy to marker bouy. Using tube jigs/ crankbaits and my fishing partner even got live leeches one day (btw i outfished him with artificials and his leeches all died halfway thru the day lol) we even got up at 5 am when there was no wind and fished topwaters along shore and all the docks this works great in maine, not so much on mille lacs it seems since we had no luck. Seemed like the fishing was off in the whole lake. Water was very cloudy this was this is the 27th so this was last Tues - thurs. It was also very windy. Every angler I saw (which wasn't many) we talked to complained of poor fishing, most hadn't gotten even one legal fish. I was unfamiliar with the fancy fish finder on our borrowed boat so I don't know what water temps were but it seemed to me the water was cooler than it should be at the end of July. We didn't strike out but only getting 5 or 6 smallies for the amount of time and the area we covered was disappointing. The were all good sized though with a couple pushing 4lbs. I figured i would at least hook one walleye by accident but that didnt happen though i did hook a pike.

The gossip in the stores we went to and in the restaurants we visited contributed the poor fishing to many factors from zebra mussels to the weather and the introduction of Muskys into the lake and most especially to unregulated native netting.

I have to say the whole area seems to be suffering from the poor fishing with a slew of closed businesses and empty resorts and parking lots at the landings. Made me sad since it wasn't what I pictured after all my years of reading and watching shows about the lake. My girlfriend was disappointed since the area has changed so much from her childhood.

Maybe it was just an off week at the lake. We woke to thunderstorms and rain on Friday so we headed back early missing out on the all you eat crab legs at toucans and going on a launch and then ending witn kareoke at the Veterans resort. Ended up at Minnatonka on Saturday and that mad house had me pining for the nearly deserted Mille Lacs lol.

We are heading back to mille lacs on Tues I believe so I hope the fishing will have improved and i get those crab legs dammit! ;)

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