Apostle Island area action???

anyone familiar with fishing salmon in the Apostle islands area?? it will be the first time up there, and would like to understand any patterns that have historically worked.

thanks upfront for any intel!

double boards. top 5′. lakers, bows, coho, kings. spoons, flys, small plugs.

I have a friend who goes there often and he pulls wobble glows behind dipsy divers. Dipsy, silver or green flasher and then the wobble glow. Stop into anglers all in Ashland and ask them for the wobble glows if you don’t have any. He gets out around Stockton most of the time this year.

It’s more lake trout than salmon in Superior, not so many king’s, guy’s do pretty good on coho in spring and fall shallow,there’s also steel head and brown’s. I would target lake trout , white/glow flasher’s and spin’n glows have worked well for me run on riggers or heavy three way(10oz.-16oz.weight), purple,glow or white spoons down deep have worked also. You could leave a couple lines up high ( with in 30′ of the surface) for steel head with a spoon or crank/stick bait. Troll under 2m.p.h. for lakers and 2-3m.p.h. for steel head. Try the flat’s east of madeline is. and the south channel also holds a mixed bag of fish.

As stated above it is a great lake trout fishery, browns, cohos, and kings are avaialble, but better to target as “bonus fish” this time of year.

I was up last week with my wife, we had no problem getting our limit of nice eater lakers. We even lost one of our lead balls right off the bat, so we only had one downrigger.

The flats east of Madeline are VERY productive this time of year.
Flasher/fly or flasher/squid or flasher/spin glow are always the best pattern for me this time of year. Right near bottom.

Once you find the fish it is usually pretty easy fishing, doubles and tripples are common for our small boat.

It would be fun to vertically jig those fish once you find a concentration, always say I am going to, but never get around to it.

The weather was so hot I didn’t fish as much as I would have liked to, spent a lot of time in the shade and in the lake!

Enjoy your trip, shoot me a P.M. if you would like any othet info, I used to work and live on Madeline and have friends that fish out there regularily.

Smallie fishing has still been good too.

i did send you a im there—or do you e-mail instead??