Fished in Lake Superior with the boys on Monday in order to try new places. Did not find any new ones, so we fished for a short time on one of my “spots” and caught 4 lake trout. Two of them came in together as a double header, one on a deep sea (meat pole rig) and the other on a downrigger, using the same green spoon on one set-up and dodger/spin and glow on the other. 
Today, I took out an eye nurse, (and tri-athlete) Lisa and her 2 kids on Lac La Belle for a couple hours and Lake Superior for a while. They wanted a little variety, or should I say basketball star Seth wanted to try both. His little sister, skier Paige, enjoyed her puzzles more than fishing and caught up on her sleep during a slow period on the high seas. (Actually it was pretty flat out there.)
All together, we caught 8 or 9 (or 10??) fish. 2 lakers, 4 smallmouth bass, 1 pike and 2 rock bass… or did I miss one? One was a really nice small mouth bass of 5.5 pounds!
We returned all but the 2 lake trout to grown a little bigger for the next outing.
Going out again tomorrow, most likely on Lac La Belle with a 10 year old and his dad tomorrow. He says he wants to get a big muskie, but I told him we don’t have any here, so he said ANY big fish would be fun since his largest so far was a 7 incher. It won’t be hard to beat that!
Brian Helminen
