I have been fishing in the Quetico many times, but the last time was 1998. I'm headed back; my group is entering with an Agnes permit, and this time I'll have 11 and 9 year-old children. I've been reading this forum and see that there are some serious fisherpeople. I would appreciate any free advice on lakes, lures, bait, and methods. Thanks in advance for your help. Drofdarb.

I was just on Agnes a few days ago. Trout are deep and scattered. Bass will provide lots of action if you cast along shoreline structures.

Fished Agnes a few years ago but not real hard. There is a narrows about a quarter of the way up that holds some good structure for Bass and walleye. The Northern end has a alot of structure and was good to us. We just putz around looking at pictos and the scenery and trolled using a silver/black rapala DT16, and a rapala down deep (20') tail dancer in fire tiger. Caught plenty of fish trolling bass, walleye, lakers. Seems we got a bite everytime we were around structure/reefs/islands. You could start there and then anchor and jig once you found them. That's waht I would have done except the trolling worked so good we just kept moving around ;)

We were fishing in early August.

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Just got back a week ago. I wouldn't consider myself anywhere near a "serious fisherman" (and we had 2 dogs which made it difficult to fish from the canoe), but didn't have to try hard at all with the smallies on Agnes (or anywhere else in the Q). Trolled along the shorelines/reefs with #11 Orange & #9 Yellow jointed Rapalas which landed too many fish to count. Shore fishing with a jitterbug and bobber fishing with a jig and powerbait also proved to be very successful. Didn't seem to matter what time of day it was, the small mouth were jumping all over - fun stuff!

quote Drofdarb: "I have been fishing in the Quetico many times, but the last time was 1998. I'm headed back; my group is entering with an Agnes permit, and this time I'll have 11 and 9 year-old children. I've been reading this forum and see that there are some serious fisherpeople. I would appreciate any free advice on lakes, lures, bait, and methods. Thanks in advance for your help. Drofdarb. "

Send an email to " queticomike@yahoo.com " and ask for the Grand Slam Lures article and I will send you one.

Thank you to those who offered the advice. We'll post some pictures when we get back.

Hey Drofdarb is that just Bradford spelled backwards, because thats my name also, even though I go by Brad .

quote Basspro69: "Hey Drofdarb is that just Bradford spelled backwards, because thats my name also, even though I go by Brad ."

You're right on the money Basspro. But I go by Brad too when I'm not on the internet.