Tim Worel
Hasty, MN
Every spring my brothers, Jack and Ken, go trout fishing near
Duluth, MN. There are several rivers that run into Lake Superior. This time
they were fishing the Knife. There were lots of fishermen but no one was catching
anything. My brothers were trying everything: salmon eggs, worms, different
colored plastic eggs and even tried a piece of lunchmeat. Nothing seemed to
work. Ken found a white plastic worm that kind of looked like a wax worm. He
tried it and it worked! That very first drift he caught a nice 5-pound trout.
But he lost the fake wax worm. Jack said that he had some wax worms in his winter
coat, but that was back at the truck.
After walking back to the truck and getting the wax worms they both started
to drift the worms and right away they started catching fish. Within two hours
Ken had five nice trout, and one of them weighed 13 pounds! That fish put up
a good fight on a fly rod. That one is going on his wall. Jack caught 4 and
lost about 8 trout. Everyone was trying to find out what they were using for
bait. Jack and Ken will never go trout fishing again without bringing a lot
of wax worms.
