Monthly Archives: March 2013

March 30th, 2013

Today I went out and picked up all of the road stakes, signs, and cones.  The warmer weather and little bit of rain we had has really started to change things out there.  As I picked up stakes, you could drive almost everywhere  ans the snow was saturated and soft.  With the colder temps coming the next couple days it will slow the melt and probably save the ice for next weekend.  If it would have stayed warm we would have had a lot of water out there and had to wait for awhile until it went down.  Fishing was still slow for the Perch and Tullibees, but we will keep trying as long as we can.  4WD vehicles only from here on out till we quit.

Do me and Mille Lacs a favor and repost my March 29th Blog and report and start spreading it on the other social networks that you frequent.  It might start something…….

Keep a tight Line!!                 P.S.  Happy Birthday to my Buddy in Canada…Steve Paulson!     save a Laker for me…….

Eddy

March 29th, 2013

Today things started to get a little sloppy out there.  Still is quite a bit of snow on the ice, but the roads are getting a little wet.  Sounds like we will be getting some rain overnight and early tomorrow morning, but I’m not expecting it to do too much damage out there unless we get a lot.  We are encouraging 4wd vehicles only from here on out.  The sad part is that unfortunately the Perch bite is not good and I still haven’t heard any decent reports for Tullibees.  It is a shame to see the lake in such a condition as it is in these days.  Normally this late in the year we would have a good Perch bite and Tullibee action, but things are so screwed up out there with the poor management the lake has had the last 10 or so years since the “treaty management” started.  Now Mille Lacs lake has too many big fish, whether it’s Walleyes, Smallmouth, Northern and Muskies. The Perch population and now Walleye population from 2-3 inches to 10-13 inches are becoming the “baitfish” along with the Tullibees. To top that off because of “treaty management” the bands are taking small Walleyes during spawning along with the larger female egg layers, and anglers because of “quotas” brought on by the “Treaty management” were taking the 13-17 inch Walleyes also.  The whole thing is totally screwed up.  Now the MN DNR is changing the rules to protect our small Walleyes which is good, (maybe too late), while the “Bands” don’t seem to care.  They still plan on netting up to 70,000lbs. of small Walleyes this spring during spawning time. ( Only 10,000 pounds less than they did last spring even though they cut their declarations on paper to make it “look good” to the public.) If they really cared they would find a way to harvest without hurting the resource like they are and work together with the MN DNR for the same goals.  You anglers need to wake up and start talking to your “politicians” and tell them to get their priorities straight instead of taking lobbyist’s money from the tribes, tell the DNR and others to do something about this. Start making some noise.  It’s the only way it’s going to change.

Think about it……….Keep a tight Line!

Eddy

March 27th, 2013

Yes we still have roads and lots of ice.  What warm weather we’ve had has not made a dent in anything out there yet, so we will be open thru this coming weekend again. Maybe even the next two weekends, we’ll see.    Fishing is still slow for the Perch.  Lots of 6-8 inchers in 16-20 feet, but the bigger Perch are hard to find.   There is not much for a larvae hatch out in the  Tullibee Hole area, and until we lose some snow and have some light penetration it will probably stay quiet out there.  I have plowed some wide roads thru the deepest area exposing the ice so I’m hoping it will help with the hatch.  We’ll see over the next few days.

Keep a Tight Line!!

Eddy