This is Artificial Lure with your Lake Superior Duluth fishing report for Saturday, May 3rd. We’ve got smelt still running strong off Park Point and up the North Shore streams—dip nets and seine nets are pulling decent numbers, especially around dusk. Water temps are creeping toward that sweet 40-degree mark, so keep an eye on shallow inflows. Steelhead action’s fair in the Lower Shore streams like the Lester and Knife rivers—swing egg patterns or spawn sacs near deeper pools. Coho are showing up in 15–17-inch range, and browns up to 22 inches are hitting stickbaits trolled near the surface off Duluth’s harbor mouth. Lake trout are hugging nearshore structure; try spoons or dodgers with spin-glo rigs around 20–40 feet.

Sunrise today at 5:45 AM, sunset at 8:30 PM. Weather’s holding steady—high near 50°F, light northwest wind at 5–10 mph (no major tides here, but watch for afternoon chop if the breeze picks up). Hot spots: (1) Park Point sandbar at low light for smelt dipping and coho staging, and (2) the rocky drop-offs near Two Harbors for lakers and the occasional early king. Keep bait simple—salted minnows for stream steelhead, chartreuse crankbaits for coho. Tight lines!