Drummond / Detour

[Mark]

We fished up and around the island this past week and had a ball with the herring. Most averaged between 1-3 pounds and fought like crazy on the trout rod. If you've never done this or want to have great time with the kids, this is tough to beat. Hex patterns worked great on a perch rig.

Talked to a couple guys at the dock and they showed me their catches of salmon...nice. Kings in the low teens and Atlantics around 6-7 pounds. Not big coolers, but great looking fish. Mostly on spoons, orange being the primary hot color. Couple LT's as well.

[Priority1]

GJ Mark. I would like to try that sometime.

[salmonquest]

That is a great area. If you have the room on your boat you can easily catch 4 or 5 different species over a day. Salmon trolling in morning, herring, whitefish, pike and smallmouth during the day and maybe walleyes or back to salmon in the evening. I love those little herring on light tackle they sure are fiesty. We had luck with the herring on orange teardrops and wax worms.

[stillfish]

Always went up for the salmon and walleye fishing never herring, are they in shallow or just find the schools..

[salmonquest]

I've always found them in bays in less than 15' of water. There is a great sports shop I think it's north country sports in Detour. The owner is usually great about providing info. He can tell you if they are still hitting and where. I think they start to wind down about now but I could be wrong. We usually hit them the end of June. A good tip is to drive around until you see a bunch of boats there will usually be 5 or more once they found a school.