adventure on millelacs

[dakids]

Woke up at 3:15am and headed north, met my friends in zimmerman and we were on our way.  Hit the ice as the horizon was starting to get light.  Our launching point was the public access just passed the casino.  We crossed 2 presure ridges in the dark which was uneasy for me.  My one friend had crossed these ridges the day before so it wasn't a big deal for him.

We started out on the east end of shermans and had 1 11 inch perch and 2 very small walleyesin the first 2 hours of hole hopping. Tried everywhere from the top of the reef all the way out into the mud.  It was time to make a move.

2 of us took the wheeler and headed west about a mile to a sharp breaking inside turn that held fish all summer and had no other fisherman within half mile.  We drilled 20 holes and located active fish right away.  4 10-12 inch perch and a 16 inch walleye in 10 min of fishing.  My buddy hopped on the wheeler and headed back for the other guy.  He wasn't even 50 yards away when my gold swedish pimple was hammered by a 26.25 inch walleye.  After a 5 min battle I iced the big girl and took a few mno ifc pics and put her head down the whole.   I wasn't going to try and keep her out of the water to long just for my buddy to come back and take a pic.  

By the end of the day we ended up with 8 keeper walleyes, 38 10-12 inch perch and 6 tullabies.  The majority of the perch and tullabies were caught in 31 fow 20 feet from the bottom of the break and were all spitting up bugs.  All of the walleyes were caught in 27 fow half way up the break.
The hotest color was gold.  Half of the fish were caught while jigging and the rest were caught on deadsticks with rainbows on the red plain hooks.

We headed back to the access before dark and took a slightly different way back.  We ended up crossing 3  cracks with the last on being about a foot wide  The trailer dropped 1 wheel into the crack stopping it right away.  The wheeler kept moving becausethe ball hitch snapped off.  Scared the crap out of me as I was in the tralor.  

After getting the trailor out of the crack we drug the trailor about 100 yards and went and got the truck.  Great time was had by all.

[deadeye]

Great story, now I remember why I don't like riding in the trailer.

[lentz]

well would u rather ride acrose a crack in a trailor or a ford even if it dosent fall threw it might malfunction!

[dakids]

I now have a huge bruse(sp) on my shin.  Trailor riding sucks.