Leaves are starting to turn color and in the air there is a hint of fall. With few mosquitos, flies or other pesky bugs, it’s a great time to be fishing, especially inland. If you are fishing on the big lake, dress warm. It might be T-shirt weather on shore but a few hundred yards out onto Lake Superior it can turn into sweat shirt weather real fast, plus bring a wind breaker or light jacket just in case the temperature really starts to drop. Now go catch some fish!
Hungry Jack Lodge Using artificial lures and Wacky Worm rigs, leeches and crawlers, anglers have been catching smallmouth bass on Hungry Jack Lake and other area lakes, reports Hungry Jack Lodge owner Forrest Parson.
Walleyes are being caught with Lindy rigs and spinners hooked with leeches or crawlers just at dark in 20 feet of water.
Leo Lake is still producing lots of rainbow trout. Trolling or still fishing with a night crawler is a good way to catch them.
Captain Kelly Shepard of North Shore Outdoors Lake Superior Charters reports that lake trout fishing is going strong on Lake Superior. The lake trout are scattered any where from 150 feet to the surface.
While lake trout are plentiful, Shepard said there are few coho or king salmon to be found.
Shepard advises using lead core line fitted with flat lining spoons and Dipsy Divers to catch trout. Fish seem to prefer hitting watermelon colored spoons, orange spoons, spoons that glow or are colored with purple and pink spots, he said.
Inland, walleye fishing has picked up using night crawlers in 8 – 12 feet of water on a jig or trolling. Evening is usually the best time to fish for walleye, but that sometimes depends on the lake.
Tyson at the Beaver House said the lake trout are found in 80 to 130 feet of water in Lake Superior.
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