New Web Site Rolls Out Today

This will be the last post on our old website. Later today, you will see a new Make It Mille Lacs website that incorporates YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Flicker. It's much easier to update, yet it compromises the staples we've provided over the last two years. It's been great watching our number of followers add up over the last three years, culminating with more than 340 visitors per day in January 2010. We think you'll like our new coverage with Mille Lacs updates posting right to our home page. We maintain the same makeitmillelacs.com URL, so save us to favorites and enjoy the ride!

Early Spring Means $$$ at Mille Lacs

Fiddlestix Golf Course in Isle was open April 1st. Izatys opened its operation the same day and its golf course is scheduled to open April 16. With this unseasonably warm weather, it seems folks are getting out and coming to Mille Lacs a bit earlier than normal. It appears that Mille Lacs ice-out should occur this week. The satellite view shows about 1/3 of the lake has ice on it and with the winds of today through Wednesday, it should be gone. People are thinking about getting their boats out of storage, uncovering their winter patio furniture and raking their yards. Let's just hope Mother Nature doesn't send us back into the lows 40s and pound us with April Showers now. For the readings in Cove Bay, the Mille Lacs lake level is about 10.70 which is about the same as it was on December 6th before ice over. Normally the lake level is up a fair amount, so we probably could use some well-timed rain this month. Expect to see Tribal netters on the lake as soon as the ice is off. The nice thing about the early ice is that these netters should be off the lake for at least two weeks prior to the May 15th fishing opener.