Morning Fishing on Saturday

Saturday was a flat water day, sandwiched in between a few windy days where we were able to fish with a good, regular fishing customer from the Mn area. Printer Robert and dad-of-a-handful-of-kids, Attorney Brig, drove all the way from Iron River on Saturday morning. They popped out of bed at 3 am (2am CST)to drive the 3 hours to Lac la Belle for a 6 am departure. When the fishing bug runs thick in the blood, fishermen will sacrifice sleep and many other necessities of life to satiate the lure of the deep waters.
Andy, my deckhand, whom I couldn’t coax out of bed last time, came along after eating a bowl of hearty Cheerios. (I think he could smell a tip coming and he needed some money for an air-soft gun).
We all witnessed a truly beautiful sunrise over Bete Grise as we left the break-wall and headed 5 miles out to drop the down-riggers to start fishing at 175 feet. The water was calm with a slightly overcast sky and the lunar game and fish feeding tables said the bite would be on after 7 am.
Setting lines by 6:20, we fished the whole water column for an hour or so before we hooked on to our first fish. After that we had good action most of the morning and after loosing a few, we ended up with 7 nice lake trout, with an average weight around 5.5 lbs, instead of the usual 3.

We had active lines at the surface on planer boards and all the way down to the bottom on down-riggers with dipsy divers in between. A black Action Andy (named after my deckhand of the day) caught fish, as well as some other green lure. Surface temps at 54 to 55, but did not drop my probe to see what it runs below.
Weather permitting, we will be out for the next 3 days at least, perhaps Saturday too. Good luck to all and hope to see you on the water.
Captain B