Open Seats out of Grand Marais 8/27-8/29

Heading up to Lutsen for a few days in advance of the Holiday weekend. Wife and some friends won’t be up until later in the week so likely fishing solo until then.

Plan to launch out of GM Weds (8/28) and Thurs AM (8/29), possibly even Tues afternoon (8/27) if I can get on the road first thing tomorrow AM. Have plenty of gear and room for at least 2 more if anyone is going to be in the area.

Will be my first time out of GM this season, but fish or no fish, beats sweating my off down here in the Cities.

Drop me a note at: [email protected] if interested and I’ll shoot you my cell.

Didn’t get out first thing in the morning today as hoped, so waited until after lunch to launch out of GM. Headed out to 200-250 FOW to start and had lines in the water around 3:00. Surface temp around 61 and dropped off quickly to 44-47 down 20′ Ran the probe further down just to see and showed 39-40 at 75′. Trolled a deep watermelon spoon off a rigger and shallow F/F on a dipsy for 45 minutes with no action and little to nothing on the plotter.

Trolled in towards shore and worked 80-90 FOW for another 30 minutes or so with a few more fish on the plotter, but no takers. Pulled the rigger line and (largely due to some of the other recent postes here) and ran a spoon at 4 colors off of an inline planer and hooked into a 6# laker withing a matter of minutes. A fiesty 4# chinook hit the same rod 20 minutes later. Was about to pull my other dipsy rod and change over to LC when a laker hit a blue/white Howie Fly behind a silver flasher so left the dipsy out there.

Pulled lines at 7:00 and headed back in. 5 for 6 on the afternoon with 3 lakers and 2 chinook. 4 fish (5 hits) on the 4 color leadcore running a 57 chevy spoon with the one laker on the blue Howie fly. Not too bad an afternoon for only being able to run 2 lines. Most everything came 25-30′ down.