Lake Superior and Algoma in August

[End of the Line]

We headed out of Duluth today from the Garfield Landing. Drove straight out at the sun this beautiful morning with my son Ethan, good friend Alan, and a friend of his Danny. Started dropping lines just before 7am at 100' of water with the surface temps right around 62-63 degrees. Continued to head out to 120’ as we went and the action started while still setting lines. We fished 75' to the bottom in that area for the most part until that died around 9 am or so. Then we changed our presentation slightly and moved in straight towards the beach until we hit 90' of water. There we hugged the bottom with the back two riggers and stacked the outsides just above and it was game on again around 11:00 until we left with our limit of Lakers just before 2pm with the fish still biting. We had steady action except for one double today. Most of the action was real close to the bottom in 87'-90'. We for sure missed another 12 hits as well. Very few bites on spoons for us although I know a captain friend of mine that was in 75’ and fished all spoons today and did well on smaller lakers and managed 2 Kings and a Coho.

I got a nice 36” Laker today that weighed in at 14lbs even on a full lead core with a 6oz weight on out in front. 700’ of leadcore line and a big fish sure made for some nice hand and bicep cramping. But you couldn’t take the smile off my face for the rest of day if you wanted to!

[2thepointsetters]

700’ of leadcore line and a big fish sure made for some nice hand and bicep cramping.

Better start lifting weights before the next Algoma trip . Oh yeah and nice fish.

[tunrevir]

2thepoint, when you heading over to Algoma next? I'll be out there in 2 weeks and again the last part of July for the KD tourney. Nice haul there End of the Line! Great pics and I love to see the younger crew members helping out!

Tunrevir~

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Were heading over the last weekend in Aug again. Wnated to go July too but we couldnt get out schedules to line up. But next year were going to make sure that happends.

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Thought I'd open up an invitation on here. A few friends and I are heading over to Algoma again on Weds the 25th and staying through Sunday the 29th. We have a house rented right next to the city marina and have room for someone else that has a boat and crew of 3 of their own and would like to join us there. Very affordable, let me know if you need details.

[tunrevir]

EOL, if this is something you can get on a yearly basis, I'd be interested in joining you guys. I had a buddy last year that got ahold of a house on washington island for a week and it cost 4 of us 600 bucks for the week to stay in a fully furnished house, it was awsome to come back "home" after fishing and just hang out. Good luck out there, sounds like the fish are cooperating from the reports I have been getting.

Tunrevir~

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Yes we get this place twice a year. We cannot get it in July though because someone with more seniority than us takes 3 weeks of it every year. We have a group that went with us for the June trip this year and it worked out great! Pretty sure they'll be joining us again next year as well for the same weekend, but our Aug trip we found no interest this year. Next year we hope to bump it up a week or two earlier for Aug. Conflicting schedules this year. As for July we usually make other arrangements but were working on getting the house then too. Fully furnished, 4 bedrooms, 7 separate beds and there is one room that has a pull out day bed too that we never use if I remember right.

Walking distance to the harbor/landing. Very reasonable, only drawback is no A/C.

4 guys for us everything split 4 ways (including gas, lodging, tackle we loose etc...) with every expense for boat and vehicle for Weds night through Sunday except food. From Duluth to Algoma and back usually come out to around $225 each.