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  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Creators
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Lester River-McQuade area.   Last time out we found bait and Lake Trout 100-120'  taken off downriggers and stacked lines over 145-175' of water.  That can change day to day so keep an eye on the sonar.   Silver Flasher w/Fly, Water Mellon, Monkey Puke, Silver w/green/blue crushed ice spoons working well for us.  Last 2 times out were during midday and bright skies trolling around 2 MPH.   If you put in at Rice's Point bring rubber boots and watch your step as the beginning of the dock is under water.
 

 

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After all the rain Saturday and being stuck inside the house Sunday morning I decide to go give it a try.  I launched out of Duluth and started in about 80 feet of water.  I thought the water would be a little muddy from all the rain Saturday but it was surprisingly still pretty clear.  It was slow. I did manage two fair size lake trout after 4hours of trolling caught off a Magnum spoon and a 12 ounce weight near the bottom  right off the back of the boat.   Nothing on the Dipsies. Graphed a lot of fish but just didn't seem to be in the mood to bite or just didn't like my presentation. 

 And yes, bring rubber boots. The beginning the dock is well underwater at Rice's Landing

Looks like fair weather the rest of this week going into the weekend then cooler again next week

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Creators
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9-3-17 report.

Fished close to the same area and depths as the earlier report but used the McQuade Harbor Access this time.   Got out early in the morning and found the Lake Trout to be suspended 100' down again as well.   Silver Dodger w/green blue fly was our hot set, taking 4 of the 5 Lake Trout we boated.  I should note that it was set back off the down rigger with two colors of lead core.  We had that area to ourselves with most boats in close along with the Charters.    I'd have to think they were tickling the bottom with Attackers w/flies/smelt, a very good Fall pattern for taking Lake Trout. 

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Dude!  Nice fish, and it had a story :P.  Lets get out there every chance we can.  Now is the time!

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I plan to head over to Washburn tomorrow and check for some staging salmon ,,, Hope to have a good report to post

Our trip to Isle Royale last week produced lots of dandy steelhead with lakers and brown trout mixed in 

ST did Ripstik send you the link to the video??

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  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Creators
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Randy, yes he did.   Nice Trip!

Could you post the link here?

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ST I tried but its not public on youtube 

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Builders
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1 hour ago, LoonASea said:

ST I tried but its not public on youtube 

It maybe now.  Is that your new Starcraft Randy?  Looks like your guys had a great trip!  May be Frank can delete this if it's not suppose to be public yet? 

 

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Yup thats it ,,,, Enjoy !!!!,,, its longer then last years video,,, Bman must have made it public  

 

 Yes Steve that is my new Islander ,,, Handles big water rather nicely 

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Very nice! Looks like a great time Randy.

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1 pound leadballs ahead of about 6 feet of line on spoons bounced near the bottom seems to be the big producers for us.  Zip on planer boards. 

The lake trout are starting to develop their egg so I think I'll wrap it up here after this week

 

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    • smurfy
      🤣 not near as shiny and spendy as that livescope toy. Thats kinda like bling ain't it? besides i'm on a paultry union pension  🫣
    • Kettle
      I mean to catch pike you just need a shiny object...
    • leech~~
      Just another "Words matter"   Voting on school levy. This was posted on the School "education district" building door.  We had a nice cold walk all the way around the building! The arrow was added, after we educated them! 😒
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    • Kettle
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