Fishing on the South Shore

[pikemaster]

Newbie here. Anybody been out? I went saturday morning and caught a 24" brown shaped like a football and a 17" coho. Put in at the Brule. If anyone goes make sure that you bring waders because the water is flowing fast and there is only 1.2 feet of water across the mouth. I had to manually pull the boat up the river. Water was extremely muddy out to about 25 feet, and the fish weren't doing anything inside the mud. Trolled from the brule to the iron and back and forth. Many trips, but only the two fish. Heading out again tonite.

[outdoor ran]

PM, I was going to try that last Sat myself but ended up doing something else. What size boat can you get in there? Were there alot of other boats around? I might give it a try this weekend unless loons foot is open for the bigger boat.

[Quickstrike]

Good to hear you got a couple at least. Those Lake Superior Browns are beautiful fish. Hearing more and more big lake reports are driving me crazy while I am forced to sit inside on a day like today.

[pikemaster]

We were in a 17 1/2 alumicraft with a 115 horse yamaha. not a huge rig, but big enough to be out there with some pretty big rollers. There was one other boat out there and they did a lot better than we did. We were running our lines too far behind the boat and couldn't get good enough hook sets. i'll fix that tonite. i'm hoping it's good tonite, maybe the northwest wind pushed some of the mud into shore. i am also curious to see if anyone is down there smelting.

[BRULEDRIFTER]

LEWDOGG, lets hit it this weekend. i got an interview up in I Falls with the DNR on thursday, but possibly up for hittin the brule on friday, or possibly battling the crowds on the weekend. let me know your plans. stop by the lab, i'll be in there most of the afternoon. how'd u do last night?

[pikemaster]

nothing doing last night. didn't get a single trip. I have never seen the water as dirty as it was. there was debris all over the top of the water all the way out to 35 feet, and the mud line extended out to about 50. now I won't get back out until sunday morning. nobody was smelting down there, so they're probably not running yet. the water temps were 40.2 in the river and 39.8 in the lake. the river has warmed up 3-3.5 degrees since saturday.