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North Shore Fishing Report
No live readings · built 3:24 PM EDT on September 28, 2026
The Lake Superior tributaries from Duluth to the border — short, steep, tannic streams and the steelhead that run up them.
Right now
No gauge in North Shore has reported a water temperature in the last 6 hours, so there is nothing measured to report. The classification and hatch sections below are unaffected.
Every temperature behind the clock on this page is a measurement — USGS water temperature at a real gauge, taken within 6 hours of the reading's own hour. Hours ahead of the last measurement are projected from the hourly air forecast and are labelled as projected. That is also why the lists below are only as long as the gauge network is dense — a river with no gauge on it has nothing measured to report.
Data refreshed nightly, current-hour rendered live — this page carries 24 hours of measured water behind 3:24 PM EDT on September 28, 2026 and 48 ahead of it, and shows the hour you are reading it in.
Streams by condition
No gauge in this region is reporting water temperature right now, so there is nothing to sort. The Minnesota Fishing Report carries every reading in the state, and this section fills in the hour a gauge here comes back.
Hatching right now
Nothing is at peak emergence here this month. Terrestrials and nymphs carry the water between hatches.
Next three days
Air holds in the 50s through Thu, and water should hold about where it is, and 0.8″ of rain in the window will bump flows and cool the freestones.
| Day | High | Low | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 2026-09-28 | 55°F | 53°F | 0.00″ |
| Tue 2026-09-29 | 55°F | 54°F | 0.83″ |
| Wed 2026-09-30 | 58°F | 54°F | 0.01″ |
| Thu 2026-10-01 | 58°F | 51°F | 0.00″ |
Air, not water. Water follows smoothed air with a sensitivity well below one — a spring creek barely feels a hot afternoon and a shallow freestone nearly tracks it — so this table is a direction, and the measurements above are the answer.
What the water is classed as
885 classified stream miles in North Shore, by MN DNR Chapter 6264 designation. This is the standing classification, not today's temperature — it is what the water is normally, which is the context the readings above sit in.
| Class | Miles |
|---|---|
| designated trout stream | 608 |
| designated trout stream tributary | 277 |
More water in North Shore
Rivers here with a full BirdTrout page — survey history, access, public land and regulations — whether or not a gauge is reporting on them this hour.
- Amity Creek
- Big Sucker Creek
- Buckingham Creek
- Caribou Creek
- Chester Creek
- Clear Creek
- East Branch Amity Creek
- East Branch Chester Creek
- French River
- Indian Camp Creek
- Jonvick Creek
- Keene Creek
- Kingsbury Creek
- Knowlton Creek
- Lester River
- Little Sucker River
- Midway River
- Miller Creek