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jerfra

08/02/2012 07:33PM

You're headed to Quetico at your favorite time of year (with good weather forecasted) for fishing, solitude and scenery but can only travel on day one and then must stay on the destination lake only ( two day trips allowed) for 5 days before exiting the same route you entered on. Where do you go? What if bad weather is forecasted? Extra credit for explanations why you go where you go.

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bojibob

08/02/2012 07:54PM

Based on you criteria:

I would enter at Cache Bay with a Falls Chain Entry Point.

I would target Saganagons as my Basecamp Lake.

Day trip Options:

Upper Falls Chain to Bald Rock Falls.

Upper Man Chain, depending where you stayed.

Route highlights:

Silver Falls
Four Falls
Bald Rock Falls and maybe a peek at Little Falls and Koko if time permitted.

"One inch on the map ~ is not one inch on the ground"

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GeoFisher

08/02/2012 08:10PM

Trip option 1:

Memorial Day.

North Bay, Basswood Lake.

Easy paddle, no portages. You can fish that lake all week and catch smallies, walleye, northern, largemouth, perch, and lakers.

Day trip to Ranger Bay and Day trip to Shade Lake.

This really is one of my favorite areas, even though I've only been there one time. My trip report for this trip is located on this site here:

North Bay

Trip Option 2:

Memorial Day or Labor Day.

Long, CRAZY long day to Kawnipi. We probably could have made it to Kawnipi in on day last fall, but broke it into two.

Kawnipi is also one of those lakes where the fishing is FREAKIN awesome. Not only fantastic fishing, but the Falls Chain is pretty dang cool, and you also get to see Silver Falls.

On top of that, there are Pictographs and Petroglyphs in Kawa Bay.

If you're lucky you get one of the numerous 5 star campsites that are located on the lake.

Day trips to Keewatin, for Lakers. And a Daytrip to Kawa bay, or up the Cache River to pound the walleye.....

Here is that trip report:

Kawnipi

Yea, Baby.

Later,

Geo

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flaxman

08/02/2012 09:40PM

Agnes

So many day trip options, it would be hard to choose just two.

With all the internet moaning and groaning about the Meadows portages, bragging rights for doing them twice in one trip is worth the rocks.

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kanoes

08/02/2012 09:44PM

i could spend 4 days on agnes...and im not a basecamper.

i think bigfoot is blurry. (mitch hedberg)

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kanoes

08/02/2012 09:46PM

high 5 flax. :) that was almost a jinx. not for bragging rights.....agnes is just plain gorgeous!

i think bigfoot is blurry. (mitch hedberg)

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buz

08/03/2012 09:23AM

Similar to Geo, Garder bay or the canadian side of friday bay in Crooked lake.

Day one, PP, I would get tow to to back bay or Washington Island.

Then up thru basswood river, and into crooked.

Reasons:

The basswood river is really nice, some portages, but none too hard, pictos on Crooked. Once in camp, plenty of day trips available, the fishing is really good, and you are away from the main travel portion of the lake, not that it is like a highway anyway.

With the exception of the Basswood portion, almost all of this trip is wind protected.

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Jackfish

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08/03/2012 10:21AM

What a great topic. One can get a long way into the park in one day. I'd be inclined to come in from the north - probably Nym entry - and head south as far as I can go. Probably Sturgeon area, Poet's Chain, etc. I might have some other ideas after I think more about it.

It's only a spot on the map... until you go there.

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Goby

08/03/2012 11:04AM

Flax, apparently I've got bragging rights, I did the meadows AKA the Agonies twice last year.

I think I'd go in at Cache bay and hit Kawnipi in the spring for the walleye.

OR September and go to Louisa (yes via the Agonies)

Tight Lines

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flaxman

08/03/2012 11:22AM

bragging rights indeed, Goby. September on Louisa would probably be my second choice, although Kash, Sarah, and Emerald would also be top contenders. I was on Louisa last September and plan a stopover there again this year, hopefully finding less trash to carry out of my favorite campsite (I carried out a three day old coffee can message cache as a trophy--I guess that some people think that Quetico needs more of those).

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GraniteCliffs

08/03/2012 11:31AM

Day One: Mudro to Argo. Argo is an awesome lake and has all sorts of day trips out of it.
Of course I have a bias. We are going Mudro to Argo next week on day one. We are not going to stay there more than one night but it really is a great part of the Park.

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bwcadan

08/05/2012 04:33PM

I love Argo Lake. The first time there, we were traveling the next day. For me, 2 nights there are a requirement, at least, if going there at all. I have based camp there twice since then and loved every minute.

To get there from Bottle with stops at Rebecca Falls and using the Curtain Falls Portage, your side trips can be a part of your one day trip in.

You would have to use a shuttle service to get there in one day.

the greatest come backs are reserved for those with the greatest deficits.

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joetrain

08/10/2012 05:32AM

I'm with Geofisher on this one. Head to Northbay mid June and fish,fish,fish. Can you tell I like Northbay. ~JOE~

al dio sia la gloria

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