Memorial Weekend Ely Report

[JBMasterAngler]

Camped at south kawishiwi campground. Was a nice little campground, me and the kids had fun there. We drove the north shore to Two Harbors and then took county 2 up to hwy 1. Stopped at various creeks to fish on the way up, only ended up catching 1 brook trout out of the knife river. After setting up camp we headed to tofte lake and caught 4 rainbows, one of which was a fat 16 incher! Lost a couple others and had a whole lot of strikes. Saturday we fished snowbank lake, and it was beyond slow! Spent lot's of time trolling for lakers and marked maybe 1 or 2. Only caught 1 smallie, and of all things, a sucker while trolling! Was planning on fishing burntside on sunday, but with the lack of success on snowbank, decided to fish white iron instead, hoping the water there would be warmer. Caught a handful of small pike, but it was slow going there as well. On the way home on monday I was able to catch 2 more rainbows out of divide lake. We still had lot's of fun despite the lack of fish, and will continue to go camping up here, but I think next year we'll plan on going up there later in the year.