Lac Des Mille Lacs

[MercMan]

Heading up to Lac Des Mille Lacs on June 9 for a second year in a row. This is a very fun trip for my group, and we had decent success last year.

Does anybody have spots/presentations they'd like to share? I will start:

I had real good luck trolling silver spinners with minnows (real long, like 6 inch skinny minnows or short fat-head type, didn't matter). Regular silver Little Joe spinners outfished hammered silver. I also tried gold with some success. I did not try any cranks, nor did I try jigging. I'm a firm believer in staying with what works.

For places to go, we were staying on Cushing Lake, so we stayed to the west side of the lake. One of our best spots was the west side of Maze Bay, by two big boulders right at the water next to each other. Here a 26.5 eye and a 26 eye were caught. The other real good spot was the west side of Owl Island.

What was real neat is that when the bite went to nothing, we would move to a different spot. Every time we did this we caught at least one walleye.....and maybe only one, and then we'd move again and do the same thing.

We also caught about one pike to every two walleyes, which was a lot of fun. Biggest pike was just over 27 1/2"

Last, we ended up with 3 jumbo perch caught during our stay. It would have been fun to get into a bunch of those, but they were scattered to say the least. Zero smallies.