After a ten minute momentous battle nine year old Ryan MacLean reeled in this beautiful 18-inch smallmouth bass. Ryan’s big catch came on Saturday, June 12 in a local lake.
Glaukos, the Greek patron god of fishermen would be pleased with the nifty local catches made here in Cook County.
While Tyson Cronberg isn’t quite Glaukos, he is the owner and operator of Beaver House, a local bait and tackle shop, and he is a go to guy to learn about just where and how people are catching fish.
You might say Tyson has the angle on angling.
“Nice catches of lake trout and steelhead are being made by people shore casting from in front of the mouths of streams and from points of land that jut out into Lake Superior,” Tyson said on Wednesday, June 17. “People are using Little Cleo’s, Luhr-Jensen Krockodile lures, and Johnson Silver minnows to catch the trout.”
Inland, brook trout fishing has really picked up on area streams, he said. “Beaver Flicks and flies are the best bets to use to catch brook trout right now,” he said. Night crawlers attached to spinners are also a good bet to use to catch brook trout.
Bass are being caught on surface lures, poppers, torpedos, hula poopers, and live bait. The walleye bite is on, with nice catches being reported from Devil Track, Flower, Two Island, Elbow, Dick, Sag and Seagull Lakes.
On the big lake, lake trout are being caught in 80-120 feet of water.
As for Tyson, he has plans to fish from his kayak in front of a stream (or two) on Lake Superior and hook into a lake trout or salmon. Even a small trout will pull him all over the lake. “It’s the most fun I have ever had fishing,” said Tyson, who only began using a kayak on Lake Superior last year.
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