2008 Winter Trout opener

1/13/2008

While I don't have any pictures as of yet but Trout season opened yesterday!  One party in house reported getting 4 trout averaging 2-3 lbs each.  It's refreshing to hear that there are some smaller fish in the lake.  Over the past couple years we had not seen many smaller trout and were beginning to worry about the regeneration of the lake.   The ice on the West end of Gunflint is good varying from 14 inches closer to shore to 9 inches towards the center.  There is minimal to moderate slush - but it didn't seem to get in the way.

Today they fished Birch lake and much to their surprise caught 7 Splake averaging 10 inches in length.  They also got 5 Rainbow Trout with an average length of 19 inches.

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