As The waters around Duluth slowly recover, I found myself, along with buddies Steve and Matt north of Duluth an hour in search of Salmon and the lake trout that were to be mixed in. Seas were calm and fishing turned out to be quite good!
In 6 hours of trolling we hooked up with 14 fish, with only 5 being trout. Spoons and cranks both worked, but a small jointed rapala was the hot ticket. In a time where NO other presentation would work, this Rapala on 4 colors of lead on a board was unstoppable.
It seemed as the lakers were scattered from 6 to 35 feet below the surface, with salmon being concentrated around 30 feet. We kept our speeds around 2.5 mph as i knew there were more salmon around than lake trout. No big kings came in, but coho’s and smaller kings were abundant.
Using snapweights, leadcore and torpedo weights we easily got any bait in the boat to 35 plus feet, eliminating the need for downriggers. SO walleye guys’ grab your troling gear if you want a change of pace and get up and troll for salmon as they are very abundant and concentrated right now.
Around Duluth you may want downriggers as the water is warmer and murky but quickly clearing up. Looking at the modis images, we shoud be back to normal clarity in 2 weeks or so depending on weather. A big east wind would help a lot!
Stay tuned as those who get out are going to have some great reports in the weeks to come! Fishing is back on on the north shore!
