Brett
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Hi guys,
I will be up in Two Harbors 7/25-7/27 and Silver Bay on 8/1-8/3. Two questions:
1) Are there any shore fishing options?
2) Are there any spots to fish close to shore out of a small boat (16ft w/40hp)?
I don't have downriggers but do have trolling weights, flashers, spoons, and live bait rigs that I use when I go to Alaska.
Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
BJP
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Brett
Edited by Brett (07/22/08 11:21 AM)
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ct
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You have harbors in both areas so getting on the water won't be tough. Depending on where the fish are in the water column, you might be able to get to lakers with dipsys or heavier weights. I'd say do the dispys. Salmon, if they are around may be higher up in the water column,but i'd guess by now you's have to be in 30 to 50 feet for them. 30 to 50 down from the surface that is.
The breakwater in Two harbors would be my choice of shore opportunities. The end of the structure is about the best to fish with the outside of the wall down to the dog-leg being pretty decent too. The inside of the wall to that point can be a sleeper, but those days are limited.
Take a rod with a larger spinning reel spooled with fresh line of no more than 8 pound test and leave the braid at home for the breakwater. I use Vanish in the blue box.
I'd suggest picking up a few 1/2 ounce lil cleos to throw, manbe a couple krokodile lures in the same weight. O gold #4 or 5 mepps with a plain treble hook is another decent option. For spoon colors I'd go with a gold/orange stripe on one side in every style you purchase. Then silver with a pruple/black side [cleo] in case its real cloudy. Silver/blue is a standard color as is rainbow trout. Copper with an orange stripe is a good color in the krokodile line.
Be sure to take a long handled net and use a quality ball-bearing swivel.
Cast you lure and leave the bail open so line can freely run off the spool until the lure hits bottom [line will go limp], then a steady, on the slow side retrieve. The fish tend to hook themselves good so go easy on the Roland Martin antics at the hit. The hits will likely just "be there" as a heavy weight.
If the wind is from the north, Stoney Point, just off the scenic drive between Duluth and Two Harbors offers some nice casting, but you don't want the lure to get to the rocky bottom.
I'll be in and around Two Harbors myself on the 31st, 1st, 2nd and third. Friday I'll be tied up, but Saturday I'm on the wall in the morning and again in the afternoon. Maybe early Sunday AM too for a couple hours.
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Plastics: making better fishermen without bait! Good Fishing Guys!
CT
Edited by ct (07/22/08 11:48 AM)
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Brett
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Thanks for the great info CT. I plan to head down to the breakwater in Two Harbors this weekend and check it out. As for the Silver Bay area, how far out would we have to go to find some structure to troll? The boat we have is not big so if weather is an issue, we will stay on shore. But, if we can safely get out and try it I think it would be a lot of fun.
Brett
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Brett
Edited by Brett (07/22/08 01:42 PM)
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ct
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I haven't a lot of Silver bay experience. The boat we use is a 16 foot open boat and we've done the bay once with no luck. We needed to be out about 6 miles that day and we figured to heck with that.
At TH that boat is fine as long as the wind doesn't get booted up out of the north/northeast. We've gone about three miles off-shore there and felt pretty safe.
Two Harbors has a series of humps [created from dredgings from the ore harbor] fairly close in and at this time of year trout are very common over and around them. Try to get down 50 feet at least when fishing around them and you'll do ok. 1 pound nap weights might be a good option without a rigger. Ask at Al's Baits right on Hiway 61 and they will give you pretty good reference points to locate the humps. They'll be about 1/2 mile off the end of the wall at an angle.
The humps are a good place to just stop and jig with a one to two ounce jig. Northland makes a nice jig with bucktail and a stinger. White, white/glow, or white with some chartreuse are good colors. Tip these with a six inch sucker minnow or a frozen smaelt...avaialble at just about any bait shop. Al's in TH will have smelt.
4" tubes are good jigging medicine as well on a 1/2 to 3/4 ballhead jig. White or white with chartreuse tails.
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Plastics: making better fishermen without bait! Good Fishing Guys!
CT
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grant sorensen
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for silver bay, on The west side of palasiade in about 150 to 200 feet deep is where we got 14 fish in 7 hours so that was pretty good, almost all on glow spoons and downriggers. I know to get the bigger fish you have to go out about 6 or 7 miles into the 700 to 900 foot depths. We also got some nice coho close to shore on shallow running rapalas just as it started to get light out.
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grant sorensen
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If you have planer boards i suggest putting on a heavy sinker then a 5 to 8 foot leader to a spoon and running that off the boards. We got some fish like that also. It gets very deep very quick out of silver bay. You will be fine in a 16 footer. just watch for that s east or w/sw wind and you should be fine! I fish out of a 16 footer out there most of the time.
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Brett
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Thanks guys. I plan to get up there tomorrow evening in time to get the boat on the water for a couple of hours. I have heard that morning seems to be a better time to fish than evening. Is this true? Since that isn't an option tomorrow, are the spots mentioned above still the areas to target? Thanks again and I will be sure to report back my results.
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Brett
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grant sorensen
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for lake trout it dosent seem to matter. Salmon yes early in the morning is better. And the spot that i mentioned should stil be good. here are the coordinates of where we got alot of fish, N 47 18.212 W 91 13.353. Im not saying you will get a ton but this is just where we did good last time. If you go out deep and you want to get bigger lake trout troll slower, like 1.8 to 2.3, otherwise we were 2.4 to 2.7 on gps.
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Brett
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Here is a quick report from the weekend. Friday night we started fishing a little after 6pm in Silver Bay. We managed a nice 29 inch king that night. Saturday morning we went out from 5-8 and caught 3 cohos. Saturday evening we fished from 7-9 and caught two more cohos. Sunday we decided to try the Two Harbors area. We fished from 4-8 that night and caught 7 lake trout. Overall a nice weekend on the water and, in my mind, a fairly successful one. Thanks again for all the help that was provided on this site.
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Brett
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