Mille Lacs Area Tourism

02/21/2025

Busy weekend at Mille Lacs. Here are some details on where to be and when!

Perch Party - Hunters Point Resort

Fishing will start at 8:00 AM
Fishing ends at 2:00 PM
Drawings begin at 3:00PM
Buttons will be $20 each
Outdoor bars and food will be available on the ice.

We are so excited and have so many great prizes and still a great perch bite, with the perch still biting we will be leaving rental shacks out a week longer!
320-676-3227 to book those!

Fishing for Ducks

The weekend is finally here! If you're in town or on the lake, stop in to the Friday Night Flight at the Garrison VFW Post 1816. Raffles run from 5:00 until 9:00. Food is available. The event is free with your fishing ticket. Trade your ticket for your fishing sticker when you arrive. There are lots of Raffles and a Silent Auction. Need not be present to win! Stop in, play some raffles, have some food and a beverage, and head out when you are ready. All the prizes will be on the lake in the morning. You can check the boards to see if you won and pick up your prize on the lake.

We're coming up on contest day. Online ticket sales are turned off, but there are plenty of ways to get tickets! We will access the lake at Garrison Sports in Garrison, or Myr Mar Marina 3 miles north of Garrison. We'll see you this weekend!!

02/20/2025

You can still get tickets for the Fishing For Ducks event at Garrison Sports Bait & Tackle, Tutts Bait And Tackle, Reeds Fishing in Onamia and Myr Mar Marina.

We're coming up on contest day. Online ticket sales are turned off, but there are plenty of ways to get tickets! We will access the lake at Garrison Sports in Garrison, or Myr Mar Marina 3 miles north of Garrison. We'll see you this weekend!!

02/20/2025

It's here! "Perch Party" at Nitti's Hunters Point Resort is this weekend!

02/19/2025

It's the final week of the walleye season. Plenty of awesome events yet to come! "Perch Party" and "Fishing for Ducks" are both coming up this Saturday!

02/18/2025

Good info for everyone coming to the Perch Party!

02/18/2025

So...we have been asking people to sign up for our newsletter on www.MilleLacs.com and dangling the monthly Northland Fishing Tackle prize pack as a prize. We have our first winner! Congrats to Jeff Sotona!

We have a bunch of goodies to keep giving away! Come visit our website, learn about all that Mille Lacs has to offer and sign up to win!

02/17/2025

Tullibee Trail is located near the edge of the transition that falls from 28'-32' of water. Follow the Perch Road to Tullibee Trail at Agate Bay Resort.

02/16/2025

has something for everybody. They have a great collection of clothing to go with all your other "Up North" essentials.

02/16/2025

Limited edition...clever wording. 😆

Come get a sweatshirt and enjoy some really good food and a great atmosphere.

02/15/2025

Looks like some great prizes will be given away Nitti's Hunters Point Resort! Raffle starts at 3pm!

02/15/2025

Vintage ride and show happening now! Fresh layer of snow around the lake!

02/14/2025

It's going to be a busy weekend at the lake! The tournament and event season has started, and the snowmobile trails are open. Agate Bay Resort has some nice houses available out and around the 28 - 32' perch water. Take your shoes off and stay awhile. 😊

02/14/2025

North Mille Lacs Ice Fishing with a Friday update...

02/13/2025

Here is a roundup of the most recent information from around the lake. This week, we included some info from Mille Lacs Trails Inc for the snowmobile crowd. It’s going to be a busy couple weeks at Mille Lacs! We can’t wait to see you!

Castaways Resort

Couple of announcements for the wknd 2/13-2/16:
-We will be open for road passes this Thurs-Sunday at 6AM.
-Our roads now extend out to Blue Jug flat.
-The kitchen will be open at 8 for breakfast Friday-Sunday.
-We will start pulling skid houses on the 23rd, please make sure your house is ready to
go. There will be a sign-up sheet in the bar to let us know when your house will be
ready.

Garrison Sports Bait & Tackle

“Fishing for Ducks” is coming up on Feb 22 nd . We have tickets available in the store.
Stop and get them before the price increases!!
It's just 11 days away!! Who is ready? Tag your buddy that hasn't bought a ticket yet.
Remember, the price goes up after Sunday. The forecast is perfect. The ice is perfect. The spot we've selected is perfect. You need to be here Saturday, February 22nd!!! Our 20th Anniversary. It is going to be epic!

Nitti's Hunters Point Resort

“Perch and Pout” this Saturday Feb 15th
Fishing will begin at 7am
Fishing ends at 2pm
Drawings begin at 3pm
Buttons will be $20 each
Outdoor bars and food will be available.

Beachside Resort
***WEEKEND ACCESS UPDATE - FISHING REPORT/CONTEST***
ACCESS:
All 25+ miles of our roads are plowed and are in great shape. We still have no cracks and no need for bridges anywhere.
With the snow we got last weekend it is hard to off road. There are no longer those patches of ice showing on the lake. If you are a wheelhouse package customer this will be a good weekend to use up some of your credits for a plowed spot. If you are not a
wheelhouse package customer, we can still plow you a spot. Just stop in at bait shop when you buy your bait and road pass, and we will get you taken care of. If you are on
the lake and need a plow then you can go to our website (Beachsidemn.com), click on "On Ice Services", and open a ticket. It is a 1st come 1st served. Plowed driveways start at $30. We don't allow personal plows out of our access as people wreck too much fishing ground by not doing it correctly.
THE BITE:
We have still been getting a lot of reports of Jumbo Perch being caught. 2nd Reef, Gravel 1, Gravel 2 and 5 mile have been the best in 30-34'. The bay has also produced some nice perch too. The Walleye bite has still been slower than usual. 8-12' has been
good, and 22-24 has also been good. We just got in a good assortment of lures that have been working well, so stop in and chat with an ice guide and we will get you set up.
BAIT:
We have shiners, suckers, rainbows, fatheads, larvae and waxies.
WEEKEND FISHING CONTEST (FREE WITH PURCHASE OF ROAD PASS)
We have some great prizes including a chance to win a guided Salmon Trip on Lake Michigan, an Eskimo E40 AUGER, Eskimo Pistol, Striker Ice Gear and much more!

The Mille Lacs Angler

Ice Road Update!
There are only 2 weekends left of Walleye season! After that, our access will continue to
be open for Perch and Northern Pike fishing until March 16th, dependent on mother nature. Northern Pike spearing ends on February 23rd and Angling is open through March 31st.
The Perch fishing is still best out in the deeper water. The more mobile you are, the better. They have been biting on variations of gold-colored spoons with waxies or minnow heads.
Walleye have been tight lipped, with a lot of nice ones lurking by on camera. We are seeing bigger ones in the shallow areas. The deeper gravel has been producing mostly small ones with the big ones mixed in sporadically. Northern Pike have been in the shallow water. They have been biting on larger suckers and seem to be a pretty light bite.
We are excited for another weekend on the ice, our office opens at 6:00 a.m. daily.
We will also have Allie selling girl scout cookies here on Friday, Feb 14th! So, make sure to stop in and support our local girl scout troop!

Mille Lacs Trails Inc.

Great News! Our trails are 100% open! Are there bad spots…yes. Are there good spots…yes. Most areas in the woods are pretty good. The open field or grassy swam areas are pretty thin. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like much snow for us in the forecast. Because of this next week I don’t think we will be able to groom all the trails again. We used up all the snow on some trails and won’t be much left to groom. The trails in the ditches have more snow in them so we should be able to groom them next week. We will do what we can and let you know how it goes.
Have a great weekend and ride safe.

MAP
Green = groomed/ packed
Yellow= use caution, logging
Red= dirt

02/12/2025

Steve from Johnsons Portside with his weekly report from Mille Lacs! 4 great events/tournaments coming up in the next few weeks!

02/12/2025

Check out this week's photo contest from Ice Camp Outfitters!

02/11/2025

Trails are open. Come on up!

Trails were groomed last night. We finally have a bit of snow. Rentals and lodging available. 320-676-3535 McQuoid's Inn and Event Center.

02/10/2025

The Mille Lacs perch bite is still going strong.

Jason Mooney made the trip from central Iowa and started his morning out of Castaways around 8 AM. After searching for a couple of hours and picking off a few nice ones, he and his partner finally dialed in the right spot—transitions in 25-27 feet. The result? A two-man limit in just 90 minutes.

Sometimes, finding the bite means breaking away from the crowd.