Where are the walleye?

[Mugsaway]

I was fishing Mille Lacs yesterday (8/9) between 6pm and 1am on the flats. Weather was HOT and STILL!!!

Caught a couple trolling lindy's w/ leeches around .4 mph - last one caught around 7:30pm. I was marking fish up till that last fish. After that I wasn't marking anything. Tried many different flats, both on top and on the breaks and nothing. All night long...

Where did they go? Certainly not all the fish up north moved to one area of the lake. I was completely stumped. Example, I was out on East Flat a week and a half ago around 10pm and was marking fish all over - big yellow banana's on my graph. Tonight - nothing, nada, zippo.

I need a lot of help

[Jim Almquist]

I have seen that type of thing happen on Mille Lacs and we found then away from the flat in a trench that more then likely came from a anchor dragging. They will also sometimes move out to a transition area between soft mud and hard bottom. When we found them in that type of area you could see how the bottom changed on the graph and what we did is troll between the two areas. The one spot was a good 2 blocks away from the flat.

[BrdHunter01]

I don't fish the flats much on Mille Lacs but I have noticed the same thing on the deep rock piles. Once the sun goes down you don't mark ANY fish. No clue where they went but my best guess would be the shallows.... JMO