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by Captain Dave Koneczny Our Fishing Report as of August 20, 2011 Our fishing has taken us from about 6.5 miles to the east of the Superior Wisconsin entry and to the west northwest about 4.5 miles from the same entry in Minnesota waters. We have found the water temperatures to be rather changing but slowly stabilizing to a temperature of around 38.5 to 41.3 degrees at depths of about 40 feet down from the surface. In fact, it has been at least 5 or 6 days since we have taken a fish below 45 feet with the bulk of the salmon coming at 25 feet and the Lake Trout from 35 to 25 feet. Yes, the surface temperature is still at 65 to 68 degree but that quick change of temperature from the surface to the 40 foot area has helped to bring in some very good catches of fish including the 38 inch Lake Trout shown on August 19th, in the fish gallery photo page. That fish was taken on a 2-3/4 in clown spoon produced by Flashback Spoons being towed behind a #1 orange dipsey using the add-on ring. The dipsey was set at 1.5 and had 110 foot of line off the reel which put the lure at about 35 foot below the surface off Minnesota Point.
What has helped our lures work as a team has been to run our deepest lure at forty-five to maybe fifty feet with the corner downrigger lures running five feet higher and again five feet still higher to opposite sides with the stacker lines fifteen feet above those bottom positions. The side mid craft downriggers which are equipped with winger blades do well at the depths of thirty-five and thirty feet which fill the gaps between the fifteen foot stacker lines. The dipsey baits we run are off the outrigger poles and that tends to get them out twenty-five to thirty feet from the sides of the boat and well out of the way of other trolled baits. Fish that swim out to the sides of the boat will tend to see them as they pass by. You will also note that many of the strikes you are taking are coming on the side wingers and outrigger setups. It would be good to remember that when you are trolling the shallower depths of twenty-five feet or thirty to thirty-five, you probably should allow a bit more distance between your boat and the baits. Fish have a keen sense of danger and out of caution will move away from the watercraft. Forty-five to fifty-five feet of distance between the downrigger ball and bait seems to work well for me and it might be of help to you in your fishing.
Our most productive spoon bait colors are dark green with red to pink highlights. The flame spoons in green and yellow, gold and orange, gold and purple, pink on silver and orange on chartreuse seem to attract a load of attention from the fish. All those spoons are in the 3-3/4th sizes. In the smaller sized spoons of 2-3/4ths sizes, the above colors also work well but you can add in the gold and silver combination spoon, the clown spoon, chartreuse silver and gold stripped with the chartreuse backed spoon. With all the rain and cloudy water we have had around this year, the clown spoon which has a lot of white color on it has done very well in the tipped conditions. The gold and silver spoon colors seem to generate the least strikes in tipped conditions or cloudy days. As for meat baits such as Rainbow Smelt and/or Herring Strips, we have not nor do we intend to use them. Our meat bait of choice is a four to five inch heavy pike sucker minnow which is readily available in the local bait store. It is fish farm grown and is not from the waters of Lake Superior or other great lakes. They work very well on dodger and fly combinations and with any of the colors. They too are a natural food source in the Lake Superior estuary and the lake trout will eat them when given the chance in Lake Superior. When fresh frozen in a zip lock bag, they stay in very good condition and you don’t have to worry about keeping them alive in fresh water bait buckets or exchanging the water.
We expect the fishing to get even better in the near shore area as this latter summer going into fall season weather moves along. So far, the male Lake Trout are showing up in good numbers and the females will soon follow in their paths. The salmon varieties are also starting to show up which in recent catches we have had both the Chinook and Coho salmon. As a surprise in the catch, some Brown Trout in the three to five pound weight area have greeted our anglers. We have not seen any Rainbow Trout but as the fall season moves in, the chances will increase as they do every year. Once again, we would like to encourage you to take the kids fishing. They have fun being with the parents and folks and the experience teaches them things they need to understand as they grow older in their social skills.
On board the Lady KDK, fishing is our business and fish we will.
Good Luck, Good fishing and keep a tight line!
Captain Dave Koneczny KDK Charter Service 4894 Drake Road Duluth, Minnesota 55803 888-724-1264 Toll Free 218-724-1264 Local 218-343-3851 Boat Phone
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