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One such lodge was the Baptism River Club founded in 1886 at the mouth of the Baptism River by Duluth resident Charles H. So good was the fishing that when a wagon trail was established in the 1880's along the Minnesota shore, with it came an influx of sport fishermen and the construction of fishing resorts. Undoubtably, they spawned in most streams. Historic commercial fishing records document that Coaster (Coastal) Brook Trout spawned in at least 30 U.S. Although the group did not go there, the book promotes the Bayfield area as the best of fishing where 'two hundred and fifty pound weight of speckled trout have been killed in one day by one good angler and one bad angler.' The Brule and nearby tributaries 'although often choked with drift, are filled with fine trout.' From an un-named brook, Roosevelt describes catching dozens of Brook Trout averaging three pounds apiece. Their fly-fishing catches were exceptional. They camped at the Agawa, Batchawaung and Neepegon (Nipigon), among others. Other anglers preceded them, and Roosevelt's party fished according to their recommendations. Roosevelt writes of chartering a schooner and so he and his cronies could explore and fish at the mouths of rivers and streams along the Canadian shore of Lake Superior. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, a New York politician and Teddy Roosevelt's uncle, chronicled his adventures fishing Lake Superior shores in his 1865 book, Superior Fishing. In fact, in the 1860's, Lake Superior was already a national destination for the pursuit of trophy Brook Trout, both in terms of numbers and size. Several of the photographs show the angler with his catch, an impressive stringer of Brook Trout displayed upon a rock. Although undoubtably staged, he hiked upstream, photographed the rugged canyon and an unidentified angler, fishing the rapids for Brook Trout with a simple wooden pole.

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At the Devil Track River, three miles further up the shore, he made a series of remarkable photographs.

He eventually disembarked at the fledgling village of Grand Marais, founded only a few years earlier. There he boarded a steamship and sailed up the north shore of Lake Superior. Paul studio and journeyed north to Duluth, Minnesota. In 1875, British-born photographer William H. No treble hooks are allowed in tributaries of Lake Superior below posted boundaries. Minnesota Fishing Regulations 2021 state that all splake and brook trout in Lake Superior and tribuatary streams of Lake Superior below posted boundaries have a minimum size limit of 20', a possession limit of 1 (combined total brook trout, splake, brown trout and ranbow trout is 5), and an open season of April 17 to Sept 6. Currently, the population along Minnesota's north shore appears to be increasing.

Three small distinct populations also exist near Isle Royale and one in the Salmon-Trout River on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Today, healthy populations exist primarily in the Nipigon Bay region of Ontario. These conditions once occured around most of Lake Superior. Not a separate species or subspecies, coasters occur when environmental and habitat conditions are ideal and enable this species to fully exploit their evolutionary niche. Along with lake trout Salvelinus namaycush, they comprise the two char species native to Lake Superior. Coaster Brook Trout are a form of the eastern brook trout species Salvelinus fontinalis, once common in Lake Superior, but now comparatively rare.