My wife and I are going to Door County for our anniversary the week of Sept 10th. We are staying on the water near the old quarry landing, does anyone have any walleye or salmon reports from the bay? Or can anyone give me some pointers on areas and techniques they have done well with that time of year. Anyone ever fished the shipping canal, I hear that can be a good place to start?
If nothing else, you can easily troll up a ton of nice pike. The Old Stone Quarry your staying near, in the shipping canal, along Sherwood Point, along the Potawatomi Park shoreline and maybe best of all, suspended 10-20′ down in 25-40′ of water off the shoreline of the Old Stone Quarry.
#9 shad raps, #18 floating rapala’s and numerous other large stick baits & crank baits all work well. If you have lead core rods, take them along. They work great for getting a large stick bait down just a little deeper.
For salmon, I would go off the Lake Michigan side of the canal and head for the Banks. Some excellent fishing to be had out there.
Walleyes & smallies, I can’t really say as I never really did much of that up there. Should have but never got around to it.
Just the same, your in for some fun!
Ditto on Joel’s info! 
I haven’t been up the door anywhere near as much as I usually do. If your looking for eye’s, I would key in on reefs just north of there. Friends of mine have been up there nearly every weekends and kick’n butt on some nice fish. Their pattern has been simple, run and gun with the locator on structure. As soon as they mark fish, they troll sticks (Live Target Rainbow smelt, #7 shad raps, and the Storm Deep Minnow Sticks). If the bite is lite or non-aggressive, they change over to crawler rigs.
I pick up a lot of walleyes along the quarry on drop shot rigs for smallies. Gobies, gulp leeches, and flukes have done good for me over the years.
Good luck
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