![]() Paul, expert Mille Lacs anglers each, were among this bunch, as were Terry McQuoid, brothers Leon and Leo Houle, Jerry Anderson and countless others, some equally well known others less so. Wave-tossed on some days, mirror-flat on others, the gargantuan lake and its odd, muddy subsurface plateaus, or flats, became a part of them, and they a part of it. Like thousands of others of a certain age, Fellegy and his brother over many decades formed a kinship with Mille Lacs that still courses their veins. “Then we washed down the boats and headed out again. ![]() “The customers wanted their fish to take home,’’ he said. This was before the advent of fancy fishing electronics, and Fellegy triangulated his position on the lake by reckoning shoreline landmarks.īetween trips - the launches were out and back twice a day - Fellegy cleaned walleyes, and fast. Never busier, Fellegy would anchor, troll or drift the large wooden craft over schools of walleyes, bait 10 or more hooks and net boatloads of walleyes. This was a half-century or so ago, and he and his brother, Joe, grew up piloting the resort’s three launches, toting groups of anglers onto the big lake, one after another. That was the end.Ī guide for more than 45 years, Fellegy got his start at his family’s resort on Mille Lacs. But on Mille Lacs, certainly by 2013, that wasn’t really possible. “My clients, like a lot of people who fish, wanted to catch walleyes and take some home for a meal. “My guiding business on Mille Lacs dried up,’’ he said, impaling a red-tailed chub on a sliding-sinker rig. So it has been with Fellegy and walleyes. Plains Indians chased the buffalo woodsmen, new stands of pine computer jocks, the next big thing. Nomadic as they need to be, people have forever hustled to stay ahead of the game. Nearby, a sailboat lay at anchor, while in another direction, wake-boarders went airborne. A clear blue sky stretched from horizon to horizon and the slightest breeze riffled the lake’s surface. ON LEECH LAKE – A child of Mille Lacs, Steve Fellegy nonetheless was at home on this lake the other evening.
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