NOVEMBER
Round Lake
Jackson County
Round Lake is about as south as you can get and still be in walleye country in Minnesota. It's about as south as you can get, period. A pothole lake, Round functions well because of an aeration system. Maximum depth pushes 10 feet. Walleye anglers who are familiar with the lake will tell you the fish can be anywhere, so use techniques that let you cover some ground. Once you get a bite, mark the spot and work the area. There is likely to be more where that one came from.

Cass Lake
Cass/Beltrami Counties
Those huge muskies in Cass Lake will be up chasing the perch and ciscoes that are hiding in the bulrush beds. A lure that resembles one of these two species that can be jerked or swam through or around the edges of this emerging vegetation can result in some huge fish thrashing at boat side.

Lake Pulaski
Wright County
Anglers should put their emphasis on the deep weedline for walleyes on Pulaski. This means pitching jigs and minnows at close range to the breakline where the weeds end. Let the lure sink to bottom and twitch it until a nearby walleye swims over and inhales it. There are plenty of walleyes in Pulaski and they bite in November.

DECEMBER
Knife Lake
Kanabec County
Hope for early ice on Knife Lake, and if your prayers are answered, expect some great first-ice walleye action. Drill over the little humps that dot the bottom of Knife Lake and fish the tops and the edges. The water is not deep in this lake, so any little bottom change is going to hold walleyes.

Lake Sybil
Otter Tail County
There are a couple of humps on the west side of Sybil before entering into the shallow western bay. Crappies will stage around these humps near the deep water right before ice-up and right after ice forms on the lake. The technique is the same whether open water or ice. Vertical jig a small minnow and take home some slab crappies.

Grace Lake
Hubbard County
There are some big bluegills in the shallow vegetation in Grace Lake right after ice-up. Walk softly on the ice and work a maggot-tipped jigging spoon between the stalks of cabbage and coontail and you will find some big sunfish feeding heavily before winter sets in.