Bois Brule River

“The River of Presidents” — Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight Eisenhower all fished the Bois Brule, cementing its reputation as one of the most storied trout and steelhead streams in North America. The Brule flows 44 miles through the Brule River State Forest and empties into Lake Superior at the town of Brule, delivering cold spring-fed water that supports wild brook and brown trout in the upper river and a legendary Lake Superior steelhead run in the lower reach. The lower Brule is part of the state-designated Brule River State Forest and receives some of the largest steelhead in the Great Lakes.