Lagoona Guide Service
Lake Mille Lacs Walleye
Best Walleye Fishing in Minnesota
Lagoona Guide Service provides decades of know-how, a welcoming personality, and the latest tools to deliver Mille Lacs Lake's best walleye fishing experience.
Guided walleye trips employ a variety of techniques based on seasonal patterns, weather, and angler skill level. Trips can also be tailored to fishing preferences including trophy hunting, limits of keepers, electronics instruction (ffs/Livescope), or just an easy day of catching fish.
Best Time to Fish Mille Lacs Lake Walleye
Post Spawn (Opener - Memorial Day)
Post spawn walleye fishing gets started mid May with the fishing opener, and continues through Memorial weekend. Walleyes at this time are generally post spawn and biting well. Typical locations for early spring walleyes include the north end sand, cabbage beds in the bays, and shoreline rock reefs. A variety of techniques can be used, making for a fun bite.
Early in the season a live bait rig and shiner combo is a popular choice for dragging the north end sand. Another favorite technique among many walleye anglers is casting swim baits on shallow rock reefs. This is especially effective when wind is in the forecast.
Post spawn is also prime for jig fisherman. Some springs a jig and spot tail shiner can't be beat. Rock/sand transitions in 6'-12' can be loaded with walleyes on a warm windy day.
Early Summer (Memorial Day - mid July)
Early summer brings excellent walleye fishing and daily bug hatches. Spinners and crawlers provide fast daytime walleye fishing on the edges of the flats and gravel bars. Massive bug hatches create unique open water crankbait trolling opportunities for trophy female walleyes.
The evenings are always a good time to bobber up on a favorite flat or reef for some of the hottest fishing of the season. As the water warms, slip bobbers and leeches become the go-to. While "bobbering up" on a windward reef still catches fish, using Livescope to target aggessive fish in the shallows has become the top technique for limits of keeper sized walleyes.
Summer (mid July - mid September)
Mid summer walleyes, provide some of the most unique angling opportunities of the season. While slip bobbers and Lindy rigs continue to produce fish, newer techniques such as lead core trolling, and sharp-shooting with Livescope, will often out produce the old methods. Fishing lead core in the basin is an excellent way to contact roaming mid summer walleyes. Where as the targeted approach of sharp-shooting jigs and plastics with electronics, makes for a much more engaging rod in hand approach.
Fall (mid September- ice up)
Fall Mille Lacs walleyes provide some of the best trophy potential of the season. Size and numbers are both on a grand scale in October, with the full moon producing arguably the best week of fishing all year.
Top techniques include rigging and jigging. Rigging minnows is an easy way for anyone to catch fall walleyes on Mille Lacs. Jigging minnows and plastics has become one of the most productive and popular techniques with Livescope.
