runs in the fall

[dooger]

I am going to school up in duluth and wondering where i can catch fish? Ive gone out like 10 times and havent caught anything but small rainbow trout! Is there any big runs in the rivers in the fall on the North shore? if so when are they?

[trimbelle22]

the brule river (WI) has its peak fall stealhead run around this time of year. the next few weeks/weekends should be the best. i am unsure of the minnesota streams, im sure they get a stealhead run, but probably not nearly the numbers the brule gets. there should also be some lake run browns in the streams.

[thistlekicker]

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Is there any big runs in the rivers in the fall

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I guess you haven't had freshman comp yet, eh?

just FWY. Welcome to the board.

the north shore doesn't get a fall steelhead run like the south shore does. THere will be a few in there this time of year but it's mostly a spring run.

the north shore does get some salmon in the fall. Check the posts here and in the Duluth/BW forum about pink salmon, though they've been in the rivers now for almost two weeks and might be getting a little, ahem, less than fresh. Chinooks and cohos show up in smaller numbers.

Check this link for the DNR's creel survey. You'll see that fish are showing up all up and down the shore. Like Trimbelle said, not in the numbers of say, that one river over in WI, but some fish nonetheless.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/areas/fisheries/lakesuperior/report.html

For example:

"To date, we have captured 24 Chinook salmon, 3 coho salmon, 57 pink salmon, 1 brown trout and 1 unclipped steelhead in the pool at the mouth of the French River and in the French River Trap. At the Knife River trap, we have seen 14 unclipped steelhead, 4 clipped steelhead, 7 brown trout, 4 Chinook salmon, 1 coho salmon and 10 pink salmon."

Fishing from shore near river mouths can turn up fish this time of year. There is a great thread in the archives of the Duluth/BW forum about shore fishing Loopers (use the SEARCH feature) that has all you need to know about gear and tactics. THe Looper fishery is more of a late winter thing but the same things will work on the other species right now.

If you do fish the shore brush up on the regs and your fish ID. For example, no treble hooks in the streams below posted boundaries and Lake Trout are currently CLOSED. Also, stream trout above the posted boundaries are currently CLOSED.