We are planning our 1st trip into Quetico for next spring and would like to find good walleye fishing and solitude. Any advice as to how long of a trip we should plan so that we don't have to feel rushed? We normally do a couple of 5 day trips a year to the BWCA but I'm thinking we will want more time than that in the Quetico. How long do you guys and gals normally go for?

Thanks

outdoors4me,

Last summer we did an 11 day Quetico trip...very nice, we had 3 layover campsites where we could really fish. In years past we have taken 14 day trips...from Nyme to Prairie Portage...lots of traveling. When you take a really long trip like 14 days , you take a lot of food....but have a great time and get a real feel of the country....you can check out our trip report from last summer by going to
http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=trip.report_view&sel_trp_id=361

Any amount of time is great, But I think a Quetico trip should be a minimum of 7 days and hopefully more than that. Hard for me to set a perfect time. I could say 10 days but 14 would be better, 17 better yet on and on and on.

I guess my answer is May 1 to November 1 would be long enough assuming I could get resupplied often enough for food and get my canoes on and off the water when it was not frozen over.

Our group of six did a loop starting at Beaverhouse Lake and exiting through the Maligne River into LLC. It was a wonderful trip with great fishing and alot of alone time. We did it in eight days and I felt rushed. Ten or eleven days might have been about right for our group on that trip. It would have allowed us to spend more time in a couple of areas we could only really pass through due to the limited amount of time we had and the distance we had to cover.

Snakecharmer

I agree with snakecharmer- but then again I always feel rushed on canoe trips- they're just never quite long enough, and in hind sight you always wish you could have fished areas a little longer or differently.I say no less that 8 days on a Quetico trip.

i usually take two 35-40 day trips a year. one in late april/early mat nad the other in early sept. to mid oct. even then, it is not enough time. am currently planning on leaving this sept. 5.

oshegon1,

Wow! Two 35-40 day trips a year? What do you do when you're not traipsing around Quetico? I want to be just like you when I grow up! LOL

Snakecharmer

Thanks for all the advice. Based on the responses, I think we'll set 8 days as the minimum and anything we can get to work out beyond that will just be bonus time.

Thanks Again,

Outdoors