North Shore

[bass]

Hello,

Haven't been on here for quite awhile, but wanted to ask a quick question....I was curious if anyone on here knows if the north shore streams still take a few fall run king salmon? 

I used to fish them pretty regularly back in the mid 80's and early 90's in the knife and the baptism and I know since then they have dwindled, but used to be a great time! 

Thanks for any info, 

[monstermoose78]

You can find a few but it not likely you find more than a hand full

[Jim Almquist]

The Kings that are in the lake now are stocked from Canada up by were lake Nipigon enters lake Superior. Most of the Coho's spawn in the Wis. rivers.

[bass]

Thank you for the replies and information.

I knew it had dropped off bunches from back in the day and from what I remember hearing is that they were pretty much a fresh water shark decimating the smelt and steelhead populations when they were stocked. 

[leech~~]

4 hours ago, bass said:

Thank you for the replies and information.

I knew it had dropped off bunches from back in the day and from what I remember hearing is that they were pretty much a fresh water shark decimating the smelt and steelhead populations when they were stocked. 

That's find because Smelt are none native and need to go and the Canadians and US need to stop dumping Kings, Steelheads Coho's, Loopers and all other junk fish in the lake so we can get back to a pristine Lake Trout fishery like it was.

[monstermoose78]

On April 21, 2016 at 0:00 PM, leech~~ said:

That's find because Smelt are none native and need to go and the Canadians and US need to stop dumping Kings, Steelheads Coho's, Loopers and all other junk fish in the lake so we can get back to a pristine Lake Trout fishery like it was.

And brook trout 

[reinhard1]

Caught two small brook trout with waxies while fishing for loopers last Tuesday which were released of course [around 14 inches] and my brother got one around 9 inches.  good luck.

[bass]

I hear the waxes have been working well on the shore.

Congrats on the bonus catch and released bookies 

[reinhard1]

I don't think anyone used waxies back in the 70's or even 90's that I know of but things change and we went with it.  Funny thing is that way back then nightcrawlers  were used in the streams but I don't see them used anymore except by the shore guy's.  That's something I want to try again also.  One of my brothers friends uses white yarn [very small amount] on a hook with two waxies and does well.  I didn't have white yarn so I used a small amount orange yarn with a couple of waxies and still had fish on.   Spawn bags still work great though.  Years ago we never used bobbers also.  But now that's real common.  I use it a lot, while my brother still uses the old style drift with the split shot and spawn bag drifting the bottom.  He's way ahead of caught fish than I am.  good luck.

[icefisker]

I have had very good luck with night crawlers for steelhead in the rivers. 

[reinhard1]

Ya, I should really get back to that like we did many years ago.  It was the crawlers and just plain yarn.  Then yarn and spawn bags and now we mix the spawn bags with the waxies.  Now I'm going to mix in crawlers and kind of go back in time for me.  Kind of like when I first started fishing it was all live bait.  Then we bought a few daredevils and Lazy Ike's , the reliable Flatfish and mepps spinners and mixed those with live bait.  Then mostly artificial baits, and in the last couple of years, I'm also going back in time and using live bait most of the time.  Funny how that goes sometimes.  good luck.