The phones of Twin Ports charter captains started buzzing back in June 2020, just after the first COVID-19 shutdown began to ease and guides were again allowed to take customers fishing in Minnesota.

DULUTH — Lake Superior’s western waters have been hot for fishing the last couple seasons thanks to record smelt and cisco populations, the little fish that bigger fish love to eat, leading to some ...

Parker Bambenek’s 27-foot Tiara angled across Superior Bay just before 6 a.m. on a recent June morning. His was one of six fishing boats headed for the Duluth ship canal to catch the 6 a.m. lift of ...

Many anglers say fall fishing for splake on Lake Superior is an experience unparalleled anywhere else in Michigan. When temperatures begin to drop and leaves start to turn, the splake bite picks up as ...

OFF PALISADE HEAD — It wasn’t a big lake trout, maybe 3 pounds tops, but it was the first fish of the day and Mark Mathieu was finally smiling after a slow morning of trolling. "I admit it. I have ...

Chris VanEvera, 45, was was hopeful that he and his crew might win a salmon-trout tournament they’d entered on June 11 out of the town of L’Anse, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was a team event, ...

ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK, Mich. — Lake Superior was showing its gentle side as three of us headed east from the marina in Grand Portage, Minn., on a recent Saturday morning for the 18-mile boat ride ...

Tanner Hrycyk is new to fishing Lake Superior, so when the 19-year-old reeled up a blue trout recently, he figured there was nothing special about the catch. “At first I thought it was just a normal ...

In addition to Hall at James Addiction, Cory Sundeen is Lake Affect Charters, Alex Cuzzo is Angler Management, Parker Bambenek is Superior Pursuits and Jordan Korzenowski and Kent Paulsen are Fish ...

DULUTH, Minn. - Parker Bambenek's 27-foot Tiara angled across Superior Bay just before 6 a.m. on a recent June morning. His was one of six fishing boats headed for the Duluth ship canal to catch the 6 ...