260,338-acre section. The western tip off Duluth and Superior: kamloops and coho close to shore, lake trout on the shipping-lane drops and walleye out of the St. Louis estuary.
602,417-acre section. Island-studded lake trout water off Bayfield, and shallow Chequamegon Bay with its famous smallmouth and brown trout fishery out of Ashland.
769,701-acre section. Keweenaw Bay to Copper Harbor: the deepest, wildest water on the American side. Lake trout everywhere and coaster brook trout along the rocky shore.
521,274-acre section. Marquette to Munising and Grand Island: spring coho along the beaches, lake trout on the humps and steelhead off every river mouth.
Recorded max
798 ft
Species
Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Steelhead, Lake Trout
78,843-acre section. Batchawana Bay on Lake Superior's eastern shore northwest of Sault Ste. Marie — a river-fed bay with walleye, northern pike and smallmouth in its warmer water, and lake trout, chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and coaster brook trout out on the big lake.