13-year-old Jake Rosenow from Iowa had a great day of fishing, catching a 9-pound king salmon and a 20-pound, 37-inch lake trout on the same trip.
Fishing is one sport that can be enjoyed all. Before becoming president George Washington was a commercial fisherman, and while in the White House he took several vacations to wet a line.
Another president who had his priorities bobbing along just fine was Grover Cleveland. Grover, never one to miss an occasion to go fishing, even included fly fishing for trout on his honeymoon.
As for Herbert Hoover, he was a fishing fool. Picking between a presidential poll or a fishing pole, he would fish. Herbert was often referred to as the “Fishing President.” He liked to say, “All men are equal before fish.” No truer words could be said. Herbert might not have known much about economics—his policies helped lead the country into the Great Depression—but he was a stand-up guy when it came to the great sport of fishing.
Now for the local fishing report.
Hungry Jack Lodge owner Forrest Parson reports that the smallmouth bass bite has picked up. Most bass caught are in the 18- to 19-inch range.
Tyson Cronberg caught this salmon on a Beaver Flick spoon he had made just an hour earlier. Tyson was casting from the mouth of the Cascade River when he hooked this beauty.
A 25-inch, 16-pound northern was caught off one of the docks on Hungry Jack by a fisherman who used a bobber and a sucker minnow.
Leo Lake is still producing lots of rainbow trout for those trolling or still fishing with a crawler.
Some nice frying pan-sized sunfish in the six- to eight-inch range are being caught now on Hungry Jack Lake, noted Forrest.
Captain Kelly Shepard of North Shore Outdoors Lake Superior Charters reports that the lake trout fishing on Lake Superior is starting to pick up. Lake trout are scattered from 120 feet to the surface. The water has warmed to 49-58 degrees. Blue and purple spoons have been the colors of choice that the trout now prefer. Salmon fishing in the big lake has also started to take off. Inland, the smallmouth bass fishing has also picked up using Beaver Flicks and leeches and artificial lures.
Tyson at the Beaver House said walleye action on Two Island, Elbow, Devil Track, Seagull, Sag, Gunflint and Crescent lakes is hot, but especially so if you are using Beaver Flicks and leeches.
Lake Superior lake trout are biting well from the surface down to 130 feet on Beaver Flick spoons. The hot spoon colors are blue and white or blue and silver and chartreuse.
Some lake trout can still be found as deep as 200 feet, noted Tyson. Water temperatures are now in the 55-degree range. Coho and chinook salmon are being caught from 80 feet up to the surface. Coaster lake trout are being caught at the mouths of the Cascade, Temperance and Polar rivers and Artist Point and other Lake Superior points using little Cleos and Beaver Flick spoons.
Rainbow trout are still biting on Kimball and Mink lakes, said Tyson.
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