If I had to choose one way to target walleyes and I couldn’t fish with anything else, it would be rigging leeches, crawlers, and minnows. What is your favorite way to target walleyes throughout the various seasons? Mille Lacs is an hour and a half away from a massive population center and it has several different species of fish that are constantly changing and in flux, always giving anglers something to target depending on the time of year. Mille Lacs has been in the news a lot lately and - truth is - it’s always going to be in the news because it’s the Twin Cities playground. The other thing that makes it unique is it’s diverse fish populations. Run a simple trolling program up there and you’re going to catch fish. And if you’re a guy who likes easy snag-free fishing, you can go up to the sand and, depend on the time of year, find fish anywhere from three to twenty-three feet of water. If you’re a mudflat fisherman, you have the largest mud flats in the state of Minnesota on northwest end. If you’re a guy that’s good fishing around rock, you can concentrate your efforts on the southern end of the lake. If I could put it in a nutshell, there are three different sections of Mille Lacs: The northwest area is going to be your mud flats, the northeast area is the sand, and then the south end is basically all rock. We know some of you like watching videos and other like reading articles, so we transcribed the video above for those of you who would prefer a text-version of the Q&A.
Our interview covers a wide range of topics and several of the lake’s most popular fish species.
Brad has been fishing Mille Lacs his entire life and is always trying new things.
It’s always fun talking to someone who’s truly dialed in to the pulse of the lake. We recently sat down Brad Hawthorne, one of the top guides on the lake, and asked him a series of question about the lake. It’s one of the most popular walleye fisheries on the planet due to it’s traditionally fabulous fishing, paired with it’s close proximity to one of the biggest population centers in the Midwest. Mille Lacs Lake is one of the top multi-species fisheries on the planet, and it’s located right in our backyard here at AnglingBuzz HQ.
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