SAXON, Wis. _ Greg Massoglia's gaze swept across Lake Superior on this June morning, and he liked what he saw. Not another boat in sight.
"One thing about this new regulation," Massoglia said. "It gave me a private fishing area. Everyone goes to Michigan."
Massoglia and his son, Tate, 20, of Saxon, Wis., were headed out of Saxon Harbor near the Wisconsin-Michigan border to see if they could catch a few coho salmon in Wisconsin waters. For the Massoglia family, Lake Superior trolling is mostly about catching fish for dinner, and cohos are hard to beat for table fare.
Still, most trollers here target lake trout, which run larger than cohos. Anglers may keep three lake trout in Michigan waters, just two in Wisconsin, and only one of those Wisconsin lake trout may be over 25 inches. The emergency lake trout rule was changed in January for Wisconsin waters east of Bark Point to the Michigan border. Saxon Harbor lies just a half-mile from the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary.
