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GeorgiaCoast

11/25/2011 01:04AM

I'm looking at this for a fishing trip in June of 2012. I've seen a couple notices that Horse is closed to camping: is this the case? I'm thinking of over nighting there on the way in, base camping at/near the falls for 3 nights and coming back out the same way. This would be my first time leading/planning the trip, so would appreciate any thoughts.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. - Norman Maclean

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boonie

11/25/2011 07:04AM

I'm not sure what notices you have seen, but there are two Mudro entries - #22 and #23. One restricts camping on Horse, one does not, so perhaps that is what you are referring to. #23 in unretricted, but #22 does not allow camping on Horse Lake.

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Woods Walker

11/25/2011 01:02PM

boonie is correct, there are two EP permits out of Mudro, one allows camping on Horse & one doesn't. I have been through Horse twice, 1st time I had a #23 & we planned on staying on Horse, but it was full so we pushed on & stayed near Basswood Falls. 2nd time we got a #22 & didn't waste time looking on Horse.

I would plan on making Basswood Falls or heading over or through Fourtown. This is a great area & I'm planning a trip there in 2012 also.

A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness. -William O. Douglas, in Ghost Grizzlies

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Kevlar

11/25/2011 07:47PM

My experience with Horse Lake (maybe 12 visits) is that you have about a 75% chance of getting a campsite on a weekday if you reach the lake by 2:30. By 5:00 your chances are way down. Weekends, much harder. June may be the best of the three summer months...my last trip thru, in September of '10, Horse was full on a weekday at 3:30.

The lake before, Tin Can Mike, has three sites... Fourtown always seems to have open sites.

This is a beautiful area...if you camp near Lower Basswood Falls, make sure to paddle the extra 1.5 miles north on Crooked Lake to see the pictographs.

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GeorgiaCoast

11/27/2011 07:14AM

Thanks for clearing up my question about Horse. Now, I read Rockstaranon's great trip report "You don't catch, you don't eat" where he talks at length about the bear near Lower basswood Falls. The part that worried me the most about Rock's report is that this bear had figured how to climb the bear bag tree and cut the rope. Is this critter a perennial troublemaker or he a new problem? That trip report is
here if you'd like to read it.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. - Norman Maclean

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wawasee

11/29/2011 10:01AM

I have paddled into Horse lake on a Sunday morning and found open to campsites also. If you are in a hurry you can paddled straight through to Lower Basswood falls in one day.

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friman001

11/29/2011 08:50PM

so is it safe to assume entering mid week gives you the best chance for a campsite on a busy lake??

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apugarcia

11/30/2011 09:02AM

I camped at Lower Basswood Falls this September and we did not see any signs of a bear. I had heard the reports too and was a little anxious but the only sign of a bear we saw was some bear scat by the latrine further north at one of the sites on Crooked.

If you really want great fishing, consider getting to Crooked Lake. If you push, you can get from Mudro EP23 to Friday Bay in one day traveling through Boot, Gun, etc. A loop finishing back at Mudro through LBF can be done in 5 days but I'd take 6+ to give yourself more fishing time on Crooked. My favorite area of the BW (so far).

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