LAKE SUPERIOR
June 15, 2006

What a day on the lake, myself and my cousin Ronny headed out on Lake Superior early in the morning in hopes of hooking into a few Salmon. We got out past the breakwall, set up our lines, and then trolled around for about one and a half hours. After we had trolled for the hour and a half the motor died on us, we were able to get it to start and run, but it just wouldn't troll any more. We attempted to troll over and over again until we were so fed up that we decided to go and drift the harbour for some Pike. So, we headed to a dock in the harbour and drifted casting smelts for Pike. We had no luck at the dock so we decided to head to the mini break wall in front of the marine, while we were heading there I happened to see a fish swim away as we were heading over a weed bed. We fished by the rocks for awhile, Ronny hooked into a nice Pike, but I didn't have any luck in this location. I suggested that we go and try where I had seen the fish in the weeds and so we did. Once we got back there we were able to see fish swimming in pairs on the bottom, we could see the fish coming out and hitting our lines, and we could see the fish follow our lines to the boat and then turn away as if they were not interested. We were limited for time, so we only stayed long enough to catch a few fish each.

Later that evening I took my other cousin Jason and his two little girls down to the same fishing hole and we got into the Pike again, this time we caught a few larger ones. We drifted all over the weed beds casting smelt rigs and spoons, landing fish after fish, we must have landed 20 - 30 fish that evening. The largest that I caught was 32.5 inches and it was a beauty. Jason kept two fish that his girls had caught for the smoker, and all the rest were put back to be caught another day, and I will return to this little hole.