Basically a summary of this fall's fishing on Superior for me.
I bought an islander this summer so the first thing was getting used to it. I quickly discovered that I cannot Wallis cast if my life depended on it. Because of this I either side cast (accuracy) or swing cast for distance. I also bought some sock foot waders and got a pair of Simms with felt bottoms. I was tired of patching the old neoprene boot foots.
Like always, the fall started with the great egg hunt aka chinook fishing. Except this year sucked for salmon. Supeior's runs are from almost 100% naturally reproducing fish, therefore our salmon runs vary greatly year to year. This year was just a bad year. They were also really small this year, I guess they didn't get a chance to grow much from the cold wet summer we had this year. Most of the chinnies I got were accidentals caught while drifting for steel. Go figure.
Something I've wanted to master that last few years was the elusive coho. So far that hasn't really worked. But with this year being a bad one, it's really hard to say. A lot of the small tribs that were empty this year could have fish next year (hoping it's a good one).
Not many of the Superior tribs get a run of ho's. Only a few of the smaller (mainly) spring fed tribs do. I discovered that if it gets a run of coaster specks, it probably get coho.
I also got a big pike casting in the lake for ho's. That was a surprise.
I got more specks than anything else, all were accidental but made for awesome pics before a quick release.
Biggest was around 8lbs.
Lastly, the steel. I've been finding a few here and there...it's still an ongoing battle.
, you'll need it.
I love that weather
