Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Email address Sign Up Thank you! We had no reason to think, as we crossed the blue, wind-ruffled bay, that this would be anything but a pleasant fishing trip for big lake trout on the Lake Superior reefs a few miles offshore. He swung the wheel over and the Roamer came around and put her nose toward the wide channel between Grand Island and Wood Island. All the time we floated in the water the timbered shore of Grand Island, two miles away across the wind-lashed channel, beckoned and mocked me. Lake Superior had got to me far harder than I realized in that dragging, tortured three hours.