Author: John Myers

SUPERIOR — Most of the walleyes swimming in western Lake Superior come from St. Louis River Estuary — where they spawn and grow — but how many of those fishermen can catch and keep depends on where they catch them.Anglers can keep up to five walleyes per day on the Wisconsin side of Lake Superior. But if they boat a few feet into the mouth of a river or into the waters of a Minnesota lake, the limit is only two fish per day.Same fish, different rules. Tyler Erickson, of Duluth, holds a stringer of fish he and his family…

ALONG THE BOIS BRULE RIVER — Dain Fladmark was a little discouraged after losing several trout Saturday morning. Losing a fish can do that to you, but his patience paid off in spades before 10amFladmark, of Knife River, was drifting a hand-tied yarn fly — chartreuse and pink — into a popular hole in Wisconsin’s most popular trout stream when the fish struck.”It just sat there for a good two seconds. At first I thought it was under. Then it went crazy,” Fladmark said of the battle with the 24-inch steelhead migratory rainbow trout that his friend, Wyatt Zwak of…