Sneaking up to Alpine over Memorial Weekend. Anyone have any fishing spots you care to share? You can email me directly if you want to keep it a little quiet:

anal_yzer_guy@yahoo.com

I know Sirlips gave out some information but I haven't seen him on here in a while.

Thanks for any suggestions you may have. I'm primarily targeting walleyes. I haven't caught one over 26 in in my life. Hoping to find a 30" walleye, and cross that off the bucket list. Don't worry, she'll go back in the water.

I have been to this lake a number of times and we have never caught fish in the same place. We've had awesome fishing at times but it was slow at others. Stick to points and pinches and there was a shallow shelf to the south and west of Jasper Falls. It is worth taking a trip through Jasper and heading to Kingfisher. You may not get a trophy there but you'll catch some fish and it's a pretty area. Also, last time I base camped with my kids on Red Rock and we had a blast there with decent fishing.

Jasper-Alpine Falls. Never fished there personally but Grandpa always says that's the spot to go. Apparently the bass are at the base of the falls during the day and the walleye come in and chase them away at night. This was back in the seventies but I'd bet you could still get something down there.

Thanks guys

If I remember right, I think Sirlips and his 35 lbs of tackle got skunked there. Not saying anyone else would.

quote SaganagaJoe: "Jasper-Alpine Falls. Never fished there personally but Grandpa always says that's the spot to go. Apparently the bass are at the base of the falls during the day and the walleye come in and chase them away at night. This was back in the seventies but I'd bet you could still get something down there. "

last time I went through there, there were no less than 8 canoes fishing the outflow. Memorial weekend could be worse....just sayin'

I'm also heading to alpine this weekend. Going in tomorrow. Hopefully the rain stays away!

Nordeast. We will be in alumacraft canoes, with little triangle backs for motors. Say hi if you see us!

Couple years ago we fished the river inlet on Jasper (from Kingfisher). My canoe make snagged a log on the bottom...after 5 minutes of pulling, tugging and whipping his rod. He exclaims "it moved!" 15 minutes later he pulled in a 40" Northern.

There is a great campsite on an island in the southern part of Alpine, my favorite in the BWCA, if you cast spinners off the Eastern most point, you should get into some Walleye. We caught 10-12 in 2 hours.

Good luck!

Trip was pretty wet. Friday night, and Saturday night it poured. We were kind of lazy this trip, slept in alot. That didn't help the "catching" much. We stayed in the campsite (351) at the SW end of the island near the 100 rod portage.

The campsite had a nice large area to set up a big base camping tent, and lots of spots to shore fish, although we didn't catch much in that manner. One 2 lb walleye, and one 3 1/2 lb pike off the west side with slip bobbers and leeches.

A cow and calf swam across from one Island to another. We had a grouse drumming behind the latrine most of the trip, and finally saw it on Sunday.

It's a very deep lake, most of the shore lines drop off very quickly. We found a plethora of 18" smallies in the shallows along the south shore, down stream from Jasper falls. It was only about 4ft deep. We used slip bobbers and leeches, and caught 6 one day, and about a dozen the next. All between 15-18 iches, and fat fat fat, with eggs. I think there was only one male.

Couldn't find the walleyes. We did find one hump that came up to 11 ft, with 17' around it, that produced a 28" walleye, she was very thick and healthy... and still swimming.

Other than that, we caught a handful of small pike trolling rapalas. I was trolling a floating rapala along the SW shoreline, and then north to go out to those 3 rock islands. Along the way my rod seemed to jerk a few times, but I couldn't feel anything on it when I pulled on it. Turns out it was just this little 15 or 16 pike. I released it near the first rock island. We stopped to stretch our legs, which isn't easy on an island that is only 6' in diameter, and has a big fat bush in the middle. Nevertheless, there was some splashing near by. We looked down to see that little 16" pike jumping out of the water. I thought it was odd, as I hadn't hooked it bad, and there was little damage to it. But then we saw that another pike was chasing it around. I wish I had video. It was fun to watch. The bigger one chased the smaller one around the island for a few minutes and we had ring side seats.

On the way out, we ran into a group that said they had a 32" pike, swallow their 15" walleye, that was still on the stringer, head first. When the went to clean the fish, there was the 32" pike, with a big lump in it's belly, a tail and stringer sticking out of it's mouth. I guess you don't need to worry about line diameter, and whether it is spooking the fish, when you are fishing for pike. Crazy.

One group coming out of Jasper, said they caught two eater size lakers. One in 30' and one in 55', both near the bottom.

Another group had success catching walleyes, in some rapids on the next lake past jasper, pulling cranks very slowly up stream in the current.

Lakers on Sag were being caught in 30'.

It seemed most groups we ran into on Alpine were struggling to find the walleyes. It probably didn't help that the weather changed, after several stable days. I think we probably just didn't know the lake well enough, and didn't fish it hard enough. Surface fishing, throwing stuff near shore was unproductive.

The flys were bad at the end of the trail, and a few mosquitos on the portage from Red Rock to Alpine, but otherwise they were almost non-existant.

Very nice report. Thanks