Was planning on a Michigan trip, but with winds forcasted from the East at 18 I thought it wise to stay a bit closer to home.
Fished Saturday PM, boated 2 Kings, 1 small laker, one laker around 10lbs and 2 Steelhead.
Sunday morning, started around 7 and fished until 3ish. 3 Lakers 1 steelhead.
Sunday PM, wind and waves picked up significantly and caught 2 Kings and 1 laker, finished up around 9:00.
Monday Morning on the water by 5:30. 1 nice Coho, 1 small king, 2 lakers out deep and 1 Steelhead.
All of the fish but 2 lakers and the steelhead were caught 30-50′ down, 1.7mph at the ball. Harley-Davidson needle spoon was our best spoon, but Anurizm, Monkey Puke, Glow Watermelon, Wacko and 57′ Chevy also caught fish. We also did very well on a jointed white and rainbow stick bait ran 100′ back off a board, almost all the steelhead went on that.
We tried dipseys, flasher and flies large and small, spin-n-glows, meat rigs, all depths from 5-150′, speeds from 1.0 to 2.8 GPS and spent quite a bit of time chasing temperature breaks. Pretty tough bite by my standards.
There is alot of bait and fish working the 300′ area out from Split Rock Light house and we spent quite a bit of time there but mostly caught Lakers. Almost all the salmon came from the landing down to Gooseberry, 50′ down on spoons off the riggers or leadcore.
I’ve never seen anyone fish after dark on Superior. On Michigan we do it all the time, with great results. Has anyone tried it? Does it work?
September 7, 2012 at 1:03 am
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