It’s that time of year when these stubborn birds like to build nests in places you typically don’t want them. Like at your front door. And no matter how many times you take it down, they will build another one in its place in less than a day.
Seventy and Sunny
Pepper joined me fishing on Saturday and we spent the afternoon on a select river along Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. It was a pretty good afternoon, we hooked up with six fish and landed three. There were no larger fish landed, but nice average-sized Lake Superior steelhead. It would appear we are at the end of the steelhead season around these parts.
This bright hen Pepper is holding appears to be all spawned out.
The water was still a bit high which made landing fish somewhat difficult as there really was no slack water to pull them into. The fish used the current and would drop downstream in the fast water – most of which was too high for wading. This one took me a quarter-mile before I could scoop it behind a rock.
A few fish from the weekend
The water is dropping and warming up. The steelhead fishing is good right now.
Dinner
After gutting this fish, the heart beats on…
Slow week of fishing
It was cold. It rained every day. The rivers were running high and muddy. The water was really cold. Even the lake was muddy. Three fish were caught all week.
Drew holds up a beautiful Lake Superior Steelhead caught in some pretty muddy looking river water.
A small steelhead caught in the lake, resting in the new Nomad ‘ghost’ net. (Awesome net)
The ice had only recently broke free from this safe harbor. There were still large sheets floating around that had yet to be blown away into the main lake.
Finally, a quiet day and a break in the rain. But no fish.