Spent 7 days from June 4-12th, and fished every day, rain or shine. We managed to catch a bunch of northen pike and 1 coho salmon. Most fish were caught in Duncan Bay, Chippewa Harbor, McCargoe Cove, and Lane Cove! They were anywhere you could find a weed or weed bed! We caught the most on the two nicest, sunniest days we had. It rained three or four days, off and on, but we managed to catch them on these days as well!
We used medium-heavy spinning gear with 8lb Fireline with a 8-12" titanium leader.
We trolled alot around Chippewa Harbor with large original perch colored Rapala's and caught the coho right at the narrows leaving the harbor and 8 or 9 pike towards the back of the harbor.
We casted mostly, throwing spinners, plastics, body baits, and spoons. They were HUNGRY!
We noticed lots of little minnows and some 5-6" perch around weed beds and also seen a dozen sucker fish swimming around too! Suckers equal big Pike! Too bad you can't use them as bait.
We saw a moose in the same area on two occasions, and by noting the hair loss it looked like the same guy!
We saw an Eagle swoop down, snatch a 20" northern out of the water fly up and over a hill, and then we heard the Eaglets screaming for a meal. Once the Eagle dropped off supper to the babies the noise stopped, the Eagle swooped back down, grabbed another Pike, headed over to a tree near the shoreline, and then had dinner itself. It was a cool thing to see!
We saw a family at least 6 Otter living across the harbor from the dock at Chippewa Harbor.
We saw 2 or 3 Otter on another occasion playing around a beaver dam. Nice Beaver,,,,,,DAMN
We had beaver's letting us know to stay away with a tail slap on the water's surface. I Thought it was a giant fish until I spotted him before he did it again.
We saw snowshoe hare more than I have ever seen themon Isle Royale. There was a group/family of 3 near the trail on the way to Lake Mason.
We fished Lake Mason (barbless of course) from shore and managed to catch one northen pike, and a tiny one at that. We saw a loon pair at Lake Mason as well!
We had a Fox greet us as we entered Chippewa Harbor!
We had the Rangers (nice guys!) ask us for our fishing licenses, and we complied. I was actually happy he checked ours, as neither of us have had it checked before, anywhere in Michigan.
We had smooth crossing over Lake Superior! Coming and going!
And last but not least....
We made our reservations for next year, and Steve is trying to talk me into going again this year in the Fall!
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