Two Harbors Report 4/17

We got to the landing at 6:30 and were met by a beautiful sunrise and a light west breeze. I was planning on fishing for and hopefully catching a couple Coho’s and Kings and then only as a last resort fish hard for Lake Trout. We ran high lines with stickbaits of every sort, color and shape and size, off planers, long lines, in line sinkers, lead core, flashers and flys, spoons and pretty much everything we could offer, to almost no avail.
After much discussion and many theories were past about the boat, I reach into my cooler to find a “Banana”…Both of my boat partners, eyes wide, told me stories of bad luck incounters with banana’s and boats. Not being a supersticious man I smiled and laughed at the stories, but noticing that the peal had been crushed from a water bottle and the insides where ozzing out and there was enough worm bedding mixed in that I wasn’t going to eat it anyway, so I nonshaulantly chucked it overboard.
Now we’de been trolling for ten hours at 2mph gps with nothing to show for our patience and effort, but we didn’t get 1/2 a mile from that enlonged yellow fruit, bobbing in the 35 degree Superior water, when Grant yelled” FISH ON!”. I quickly yanked the Rod from the rod holder and handed it to Rick who was the only one of us who hadn’t caught a fish out of Gitchi. He reeled her up with little trouble she rolled into the net, A very nice 28″ Laker, about as big as you’de want to eat and plenty fun on the rod. A couple pictures and she was in the cooler. We fished for two more hours with out another bite.
Talked to a few other fishermen, all said they were planning on jigging in deepwater, 200’+, or on the humps straight out from the harbor. We only saw one other fish caught out of 7-8 boats.
It ended up being a great day of fishing, for the fish.
Supersticious or not, I will never let another banana in my boat.

haha enough with the bannanas huh? lol. Yesterday was a beautiful day, and today its like 40 degrees, fog and at least 7 footers out there haha. my face still feels a little crisp from that sun yesterday.

I want to say a big thanks to doug for taking me out on the big lake. it was well worth the drive. in one afternoon i learned so much about fishing for trout / salmon on the big lake. Between Doug and grant there were many years of knowledge. It was a long drive home after getting up at 1:45AM and not getting back until 11pm but worth every minute of it. For those who have never fished on the big lake give it a try. even just one fish is worth the trip. Remember you will have time to make up for all that lost sleep when your in the pine box. Thanks again to Doug and Grant. Can’t wait to do it again. And grant let me know when you want to hit that south shore.

yea thank you doug that was alot of fun, well have to do it again sometime soon, hopefully well do better once that water warms up. alrighty i will rick, i have heard reports of some big lakers being caught already down there. It was nice meeting you too. hopefully we can do it again.

Thanks for the report! Even though the fish did not cooperate, it sounds like you guys still had a great day on the water!

Maybe the bad luck is Grant… I took him out one day too on Mille Lacs and we didn’t do very good either….

ouch! haha. thats just what people say as a back up plan when we dont get any fish. instead of saying the conditions werent right or bad weather or anything they just say lets blame it on Grant lol. Well have to get out again this summer brad and ill redeem myself haha.