ice was good on saturday,seen a few quads on the ice,fishing was slower then anticipated,our group picked up eight eyes and a perch,all good eaters,only one fish hit the 20 mark on the ruler.good luck!!!

nice job!!

that is correct sir!!

nice catch,how far below the surface are the fish running?

how far off shore do you need to run out to find those depths?

sounds like you have a good plan,but the water is dirty right now,lots of runoff this year,goodluck.

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never got to meet him but followed his many reports here and on lake link,ive been out fishing in the area where he went down and it is very unpredictable,always have been told to stay away from there.i had a close one up off of houghton point a few years back myself,you have to respect the lake and always be cautious.last march my dad passed away while we were fishing on the big lake from natrual causes,i would like to beleive that theres a few good fishermen in heaven now.R.I.P jim hudson!

sounds good hope to get out this weekend,out of town working right now so it can get cold this week and we should have good ice,sounds like a slow start this year.

i too have fished the bay and surrounding waters,south winds are very fishable up to 20 mph,but watch out when the wind shifts doesnt take long to get blolwn off.goog luck

sounds good,gotta try it.

have fun,looking forward to the results.

what do you mean when you say the lake will turnover is it the same as inland lakes ,will the salmon go shallow then?im not very framiliar with the salmons habits i want to try it out yet this year,90 percent of the time im chaseing lake superior lake trout,they seem more predictable,any info is always welcome,thanks guys…

thanks z-man,i will check back in here when i am ready to go.

very nice net indeed grant, i had one just like it a few years ago,netted one fish with it and then the guy i was fishing with decided to head for shore when we picked up that day and he was in a hurry and the net flew out the back of the boat and before we could get turned around and get back to it the thing sank to the bottom,i sure do miss it.

got out saturday,saxon harbor wis,got 4 lakers nothing big yet this year but a lot of good eating fish.fishings been tuff this year,no consistant paterns on the lakers,found them all the way up in 58 fow,usually now they are a lot deeper.

hey al,sounds like you have all of the right equipment to get you down into the zone,most of my fishing is done in wisconsin waters but the fish are all running deep this time of year,all i can suggest is to start out shallow,maybe around 70 fow and keep moveing out deeper and try to fish the entire water column until you can patern the fish in there feeding habits.theyare very unpredictable as alwyas but if you pick one up there are sure to be more around,goodluck….

thanks for the info..

things are settled down over on the wisconsin shoreline near saxon area and the lakers are still biteing good.

hope the mud clears up for you guys in the duluth area,isnt this the second time youve had a major rain this year that dirtied up the water?sounds like a dry forcast comeing up,goodluck..

ive been running yamaha motors for almost 10 years and never missed a day of fishing,4 strokes are fuel injected and very quiet,that would be my first choice.

nice job,those big trout can tire me out and im 38 and about 200 pounds,the kids got a good fish under his belt already,bet he cant wait to get back out,goodluck….

always good to be on the water!!!!!

im in the area for work and we did get out fishing and boated tons of 8 inch crappies / good time!!!!

havent been in the bay itself,but was trolling last weekend on sundaymorning,the average temp was 43 degrees,only had one rip pretty slow fishing.

hang in there mark the water is still cold 41 degrees so i think the fish will be shallow for sometime yet the ones we got were in less than 15 fow.

panfish tactics have always produced fish for us…

cribs can be a very valuable addition to the structure base in the flowage sounds like a good thing to be part of.

look on the bright side,less ice this year means the planer boards will be deployed that much sooner in spring,3 years ago i was trolling bark bay in march had a blast…….

thanks jim .