I am taking a trip to the Boundary Waters in early June and will be camping and fishing on Red Rock & Alpine Lake. This will be my 2nd trip to the Boundary Waters and 1st time being in this area. If anyone has any fishing tips, hot spots, advice, etc. I am all ears.

If anyone has also fished the near by lakes (Rog, Tern, Jasper, Ray, Kingfisher, Tickle) we are thinking about taking a day trip to one of those as well.

Thanks in advance for the advice!

We only did well on the falls at the south of Alpine, but it was one of the best bites I've been on...anywhere. OK during light, bonkers after dark. Bring an anchor.

On the northeast corner of Alpine, there is a 5-star site. If you can secure this site, plan on staying a couple of days...it's incredible, one of the nicest sites anywhere in the BWCA or Quetico in my opinion.

Anyway, if you trace almost 180 degrees south from that campsite, there is a large hump or rockpile or something there in the middle of the open water, just to the west of the 101-rod portage into Seagull. Check your contours on your map. I have heard that fishing in that area is very productive. You can also float / troll all around that area for walleye. We got into them at night.

Additionally focus on the Alpine side of the channel on the northeast side of the lake that winds around and connects to Seagull.

SE. of campsite 411 on Red Rock is a hump and we did pretty well fishing that hump.

i wouldnt waste anytime on tern-ray or tickle.
Ray was actually surveyed in 1999 (which is surprising to me) and they netted 1 sucker !!!!
kingfisher does hold fish with a decent flowage from Ogish. & with no campsite on kingfisher 1 never knows . my first time through, my paddling partner said it holds trophy smallies , being mainly a pass through lake.

jlw034: "We only did well on the falls at the south of Alpine, but it was one of the best bites I've been on...anywhere. OK during light, bonkers after dark. Bring an anchor. "

The Headless fishermen, are kinda creepy. That 2nd and
third picture is really cool.

Captn Tony: "SE. of campsite 411 on Red Rock is a hump and we did pretty well fishing that hump."

SE of 411 is land. Do you mean SW, or you talking about in that little bay that is across the point, SE of 411?

We fished alpine for a few days, a few years ago, over memorial weekend. The water was pretty cold. We hammered the smallmouth in the shallows below the falls, in the south end of the lake. Like where JLW034 was suggesting. Where we were fishing was only a couple feet deep. We were just a little bit west of where it drops off into deeper water. I would imagine there are times where they stack up on that drop off.

We camped on 351. Decent site. Long uphill walk to the latrine. Couple grouse up there, and saw a moose in the channel to the south of us. We struggled to find the walleyes, but the weather was crappy, and we didn't fish real hard. We caught a nice 4 lber from camp, and got one that was about 28" straight west of camp on a hump near those narrows.

Thanks for all the great tips on fishing spots and camping sites. Lots of great info on this thread and I'm excited to get out there and try to find a few of these spots.

Also, Headless Fisherman: I think you need to submit those pics for the BWCA Photo Contest just as is.

We are leaving on our trip tomorrow to Red Rock & Alpine Lake. If anyone has any fishing hot spots, camp site recommendations, or trip reports I'm all ears!

lighted slip bobbers from camp at night

analyzer: "

Captn Tony: "SE. of campsite 411 on Red Rock is a hump and we did pretty well fishing that hump."

SE of 411 is land. Do you mean SW, or you talking about in that little bay that is across the point, SE of 411?"

Sorry it was campsite 408 and sse of the site.