Tyson Cronberg’s Beaver House was busy the other day. Customers, some wearing masks, some not—were social distancing as they looked over the assorted fishing equipment, shirts and sweatshirts in the store. Some were there to share fishing stories; some were there to buy Beaver flicks, bobbers, or bait. All who were there moseyed around the store with big smiles on their faces, covered with masks or not.
It’s hard not to smile when you are talking to Tyson—or listening to him as he shares his fishing knowledge and fishing stories. The Beaver House has been part of the Cronberg’s legacy his whole life. The sole owner today, the business has been in Tyson’s family for 56 years. But it nearly wasn’t.
A couple of years ago other family members wanted out and Tyson tried to get a loan from one bank, and then another bank, and he was turned down by both. “I didn’t know what to do. I prayed to God for help and 15 minutes later, a friend called me and asked if there was anything he could do. I explained my predicament and he asked me if I could wait ten minutes for him to call back. Sure, I said. Ten minutes later he called back and told me he could loan me the money I needed to buy out my family members. That’s what I call a great friend. That’s what I call an answer to prayer,” Tyson told a gentleman from the Twin Cities who was thanking him for continuing on with this iconic business.
And then he was back to talking about fishing.
As congenial as he is, and as good a storyteller as he is, Tyson does have a lot of knowledge about where and how to catch fish in our North Country lakes and streams. The fact that he can get even the most dispassionate angler excited about fishing can brighten almost anyone’s day.
Here is Tyson’s local fishing report for the last week in June 2020.
“Leo Lake, Kimball and Mink Lake are giving up some nice rainbow,” he said. “Rainbow are being caught by anglers trolling for them or still-fishing with a crawler and a slip sinker and no bobber.”
He recommends those anglers to try crawlers and Beaver Flicks, Little Cleo’s and floats with a crawler to get a rise from a rainbow.
Lake Superior Lake Trout are showing up in 80 to 180 feet of water. Hot lures are Beaver Flick spoons colored blue & white or blue and silver and chart-reuse spoons.
Coaster brook trout and lake trout are showing up in good numbers in front of the mouth of area streams and rivers that empty into Lake Superior. Try your luck catching these fish by using a Little Cleo’s and Beaver Flick spoons.
Anglers are often picking up a limit of small-mouth bass and northern on Devil Track, Elbow, Ball Club and Two Island Lakes.
If you are looking for a meal of northern pike, good bets are to ply the waters at Elbow, Cascade, Crescent, or Northern Light Lakes. Use a spoon or spinner hooked with a crawler or sucker minnow to lure the fish in for a strike.
Walleyes are biting using Beaver Flicks, or lindy rigs tipped with crawlers or leeches and bobber, late afternoon and evenings on Two Island, Devil Track, Dick, Ball Club, Seagull, Sagnanaga, and Crescent Lakes.
One fellow reported catching a King Salmon recently, he added.
Fishing for brook trout in area streams have really picked up. Nice brook trout catches have been reported from Kadunce, Devil Track, Little Devil Track, Elbow, Junco, Kimball, and Cascade rivers/streams.
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