Above: Dave Beckwith of Grand Marais was all smiles after reeling in this beautiful lake trout on Tuesday, July 16. Dave and his wife Debbie were fishing with Butch and Rhonda Schulte near “Alligator Rock,” the reef near the mouth of Fall Creek. This big trout was the last fish of the day and it took about 20 minutes to land it. Dave released the trout, which Butch estimated to be about 15 – 20 pounds.
Forrest at Hungry Jack Lodge reports that a lot of nice small mouth bass have been caught on Hungry Jack. He said both artificial and live bait have been working well with the smallmouths.
Evening is the time to fish for walleyes on Hungry Jack. Forrest said they are being caught in 15-18 feet of water.
Capt. Jerry Skarupa of Secret Lures says a lot more salmon are around in the top 50-foot depth of Lake Superior.
Lake trout are in scattered depths even in the cold water.
Left: Will Sorensen of Neenah, Wisconsin caught this impressive 18-inch bass while fishing with Joe Carlson of Joe’s Inland Guide Service. Will was visiting his aunt, Mary Sorensen.
At Buck’s Hardware Hank, the annual fish contest is up and running. As of Wednesday afternoon, there weren’t any brook trout on the leader board.
Other categories at least have a decent start with the action in the salmon division kind of exciting. A number of people in this category have been on the board briefly, only to be washed away in a slurry of fish guts.
Currently the Bernier boys are duking it out with Tom coming in one ounce heavier than his brother Paul…his fish weighed more too. Let’s keep up the good work and see if we can’t get some really good numbers for the rest of the week.
2013 ENTRIES
(as of press time)
Walleye
Rich Hager
5 pounds15 ounces
Jared Butler
5 pounds 15 ounces
Dan Hauge
5 pounds 8 ounces
Northern
Terry Klos
4 pounds 10 ounces
Small Mouth Bass
Bob Seward
4 pounds 4 ounces
Bob Seward
3 pounds 12 ounces
Terry Klos
3 pounds 11 ounces
Lake Trout
Devyn Deschampe
6 pounds 8 ounces
Mike Kluska
6 pounds 7 ounces
Salmon
Tom Bernier
5 pounds 9 ounces
Paul Bernier
5 pounds 8 ounces
Bill Simonozicz
5 pounds 7 ounces
Brook Trout
None yet!
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