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Author Topic: Mille Lacs Ice reports?  (Read 1409 times)

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Offline UplandObsession

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Anyone know of any resort/launches other than Macs twin bay that have Ice condition reports for Mille Lacs?  Or has anyone been up there yet to give me an idea of the ice conditions?  Its either a short day trip to Mille Lacs or a LOOOOOOOONG day trip to Red on sunday.  I would rather take the short day trip if its worth it.  I've got 4 JT customs to break in and i wasn't able to get it done on local lakes this past weekend.

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This was yesterday from Jerry Brandt..

Jerry Brandt's Ice Fishing
1 day ago
Ice Report for 12/13/2017 - Jerry ventured out yesterday afternoon and made it to 1 1/4 mile. There is alot of rough ice in close so he had to go East towards Izatys to get over the rough stuff. It's pretty rough for the first 1/4 mile and he had 8 1/2" of ice. Beyond that it's smoother ice and he found anywhere from 5 1/2" to 7". ATVs and sleds will be allowed at this time to 1 1/4 mile.
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Here's one from Lundeen's....7 days ago...


(12-08)...We're finally starting to see some clusters of people around the south end of Mille Lacs. To this point, we've had some onsie-twosies around, but with the ice thickness ranging from 5-10 inches in Cove, Wahkon and Isle it's starting to look like "game-on"! Mostly northerns so far, with a few walleye a handful of perch and even the rogue crappie. Expect to see a fair number of houses dot the icescape starting this weekend. Look to 8-12 feet for your northern pike using sucker minnows, and 18-22 feet for the walleye with a live shiner or a jigging spoon or jiggin' rap tipped with a piece of a minnow. Perch, crappies and sunnies are best on waxies or spikes with a small teardrop.
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