grand marais Grand Marais area report 5/27-6/1

[tunrevir]

Was up the Gunflint trail this past weekend and the walleye bite was steady on Thursday and Friday with fish coming out of 6-12' on slip bobbers and leeches.  Worked paddle tail swim baits and caught some larger fish on those.  Smallie bite was starting to turn on with bass caught up to 3 lbs casting rocky areas with deeper water nearby.  Caught some bonus perch in the 5-6' water with weeds nearby off sand flats.  Stream trout lakes didn't produce much for us but the rivers and creeks provided some brook trout action on spinners and small spoons.  Fished Ball Club, Devils Track and Two island lakes.  Trestle pine lake, Kemo did not produce any trout for us but the area creeks and rivers provided action to keep us interested.  The cold front that moved in Shut the fishing down Saturday night to the leech presentation but they walleye did respond to paddle tails pitched and slowly retrieved.

Tunrevir~

[JBMasterAngler]

Nice report. I'll be up there in a couple weeks. Was the beaver house still open for business? Ever since the DNR stopped stocking rainbows into pine trestle I haven't done very well in the spring, but it's really good in the fall for splake. I'm eager to give mink and kimball lakes a try, since the DNR poisoned out the perch/rock bass last fall.

[monstermoose78]

Fishing Mink and Kimball will be nice again. Knowing when you get a bite it is a trout. My uncle said the rainbows were really small in Mink and Kimball, but now they should be able to grow a little faster without all the perch and rockbass. Splake can be active early in the year as well, but I agree fall is prime time. If you are looking for some bigger Rainbows another lake that is worth checking is Talus we access it from West Twin lake. 

Good Luck 

[birdguy]

Spent last Wednesday - Sunday up on Silver Island. Four of us boated 26 walleyes anywhere from 14 - 19 inches. Caught several of the lakes large black crappies and released numerous small northerns. The mayfly hatch was in full swing and our boats were covered each morning with them. Needless to say we had to work extra hard for our fish. Wanted to hit some trout lakes in the area on Saturday but it rained buckets all day and we decided to stay on Silver and try our luck, turned out to be our best day of fishing.

[tunrevir]

Nice work there Birdguy!  Any pics you want to share?  Those northwoods crappies tend to be nice and dark.

Tunrevir~

[birdguy]

Only one picture with a crappie in it, the other picture is me with a 19 - 20 inch eye.

 

[tunrevir]

Very Nice!  Good work!  Makes me want to head up there again.

Tunrevir~

[birdguy]

A fishin buddy with us just sent me this photo, didn't know he'd taken it, nice picture though. Silver is always a good lake, but dangerous if you don't know the rocks.....