Duluth/superior ice fishing?

  • mattgroff
    Posts: 585
    January 1, 2017 at 8:59 pm #1661377

    Driving home from lake vermillion the family and I always cut through Duluth on 53 and take the Wisconsin 35 home. As we were going over the bridge I noticed a ton of portable shacks out ice fishing. They looked to be spread out a lot. What would they be fishing? Being spread out like that. It was kinda cool cause off in the distance on the other side of the tree line there was 4 or 5 big ships on superior. Always cool to see. Just curious to see what species they are after.
    Thanks Matt

    mattgroff
    Posts: 585
    January 2, 2017 at 8:13 am #1661433

    Nice. I didn’t think they were walleye fishing because they were so spread out. I figured if they were walleyes they would be sitting on some structure not spread out like that.

    tim hurley
    Posts: 5829
    January 2, 2017 at 4:11 pm #1661524

    Any ‘pout in that harbor-or crappies?

    Tim J
    Duluth, MN
    Posts: 539
    January 2, 2017 at 5:37 pm #1661565

    Take a look on the navionics app and you find that the bay is a mostly a large flat averaging 6-8 feet deep that was the natural river bottom. There is also the deep dredged shipping channels but with ships still going through that ice isn’t safe. I usually try to get away from people to reduce noise in my area with the shallow water. Been a decent morning bite as of late.

    Allan Davis
    Carlton, MN
    Posts: 415
    January 2, 2017 at 7:59 pm #1661593

    For pout and crappies you need to get up river. The harbor is more walleyes and random sturgeon. The deal with them being so far out is that where they are fishing is a big feeding flat so it’s not so much spot on a spot it’s more of a pick a spot Swiss cheese it and see what happens. This is the case all the way until shipping season is over than you can fish a little deeper water then I becomes more spot on a spot type of fishing.

    mattgroff
    Posts: 585
    January 2, 2017 at 8:34 pm #1661599

    Awesome. Good luck to you guys. Ya I was just wondering after seeing that many shacks out and being spread out like that. Looked like a great day to be out there yesterday.

    evobassfish
    Posts: 89
    January 5, 2017 at 10:16 am #1662475

    Is anyone ice fishing for coho yet?
    Its been on my bucket list ever since the ido crew filmed up there.

    Gitchi Gummi
    Posts: 3021
    January 5, 2017 at 12:19 pm #1662547
    evobassfish wrote:

    Is anyone ice fishing for coho yet?
    Its been on my bucket list ever since the ido crew filmed up there.

    Not anywhere near Duluth… There is nothing as far as ice goes on lake superior yet besides the chunks that break off in the harbor and float out into the lake.

    Gitchi Gummi
    Posts: 3021
    January 9, 2017 at 3:46 pm #1663874

    I work downtown and this morning I noticed skim ice has formed over most of the area from 21st Ave East to as far as I can see towards the Superior entry.

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    January 9, 2017 at 4:38 pm #1663895

    I’m betting but s more like slush than ice. Not a bad sign though. Need about 3-4 more good cold spells and a little luck to get anything promising.

    Tim Bossert
    Cochrane, WI
    Posts: 429
    February 10, 2017 at 4:40 pm #1673074

    No ice anytime soon with the forecast…

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    February 10, 2017 at 4:56 pm #1673076

    I’d say that it’s all but over. Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield are good to go though. Wish I had a snowmobile.

    biff
    Posts: 27
    February 13, 2017 at 10:31 pm #1673818

    Yeah, not gonna happen this year on the Duluth side.

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    February 14, 2017 at 7:12 am #1673840

    There’s always jigging from a boat.

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