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Article: The Greatest Lake: LAKE SUPERIOR IS THE LARGEST LAKE IN THE WORLD AND THE HEART OF THE LAST MIDWESTERN WILDERNESS. IN ITS REMOTE COVES, ROUGH TRIBUTARIES, AND TREACHEROUS OPEN WATER, THE ADVENTUROUS ANGLER CAN FIND SOME OF THE BEST STEELHEAD FISHING IN NORTH AMERICA.(The Greatest Lake)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Byline: Jerry Dennis
Up north on the Canadian shore of Superior all the rivers are impatient to reach the lake. Not much farther north every stream flows the other way, to James Bay and Hudson Bay. But here, the rivers are brief and furious and leap over waterfalls in their eagerness to meet the largest lake on earth. In spring, steelhead from Lake Superior move into the rivers; in the fall come steelhead, salmon, brook trout, and lake trout. The fish come and go quickly and the weather changes hourly--but if your timing is right, the fishing can be very good.
In May of 2004, my timing was perfect. I drove north from my home in northern Michigan, picked ...