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.

LAKE X
June 10, 2006

Myself and Steve headed up to Lake X in his vintage 1962 Chevy Impala 4 door with a boat, motor, and trailer towed behind. We headed straight to where we have had success in the past, and sure enough we got into the Walleye pretty quick. Unfortunately the wind was terrible and our anchor was too small to hold us so we ended up moving around trying to get out of the wind. We managed to get 5 decent sized Wallys before we had to move, so we were doing well already. We ended up finding our way to the end of the lake and exploring the outflowing river system, found a couple of holes that would probably be good early in the season, we'll be back. After exploring the river we decided to head to a sheltered bay for some Pike action, and did we ever get into them. We didn't catch any trophy Pike, but there is something about pulling a buzz bait across a lily patch and watching a 3lb Pike come rocketing out of the water, missing your lure, and then as soon as he hits the water again he smashes your lure and the fight is on. Wow, we had a lot of fun pulling in Pike after Pike, we even managed to catch 5 that were large enough to keep. Before we called her quits for the night we drifted across the front of an Island where again with the buzz bait, we pulled 4 decent bass out of the trees and rocks that lined the shore. They were nothing huge, but you can't keep any over 13" this early in the year. We headed back to the launch where we packed up and headed home to clean the fish that we had just caught.