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card0056

06/28/2009 11:48AM

Any suggestions for a route, EP, exit point, etc. that is less used and may require a hard day(s) work but with access to some good fishing lakes, swim holes, relaxing areas? Thanks in advance for all the good suggestions. I used this site to get an idea on the sawbill-cherokee route and some fishing spots. The result was thet best trip I have been on and the fishing was spectacular (excluding the walleyes). The best part was we only saw two other groups of canoes in 5 days excluding or entry and exit on sawbill.

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Trix

06/29/2009 04:46PM

Card0056: I would check to see what permits are still avaliable for those dates. I just booked another trip for the same entry date & I had little to choose from. Go to recreation.gov & click on permits. Put in your entry date & all avaliable permits will come up. Then you can decide what routes may work for your group. There are still a few left for the gunflint area but some of them may not work for what you are looking for. Do you want to to do alot of portaging? Do you prefer to basecamp, or travel everyday & do a loop? Let us know & there will be plenty of people here to help.

C-H-A-L-L-E-N-G-E: Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do.

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card0056

06/29/2009 06:11PM

Thanks for the note trix, I actually just booked going in on Saganaga. Going to American Point and probably looping around to Seagull. Hope to hit Ogish and base camp and fish as much as we can in that area. Any advice for mid August fishing. I am assuming the earlier in the AM we can get out the better our chances are.

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ozarkpaddler

06/29/2009 10:01PM

At one time Ogish had a "One night only" regulation, plus it is a popular lake that will be very busy in August. If I were base camping, I would look to Ester or the little lakes north of there. Have heard wolves both times I was there and good smallmouth and northern fishing. Supposedly good lake trout in a couple lakes, but Lakers always snub their nose to my line! Here's a stringer of smallies from Ester and a pic of the area. TW

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain

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tmcd

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06/29/2009 11:37PM

Take Ozark's advice an stop on Ester.Also,Hanson is just as good for smallmouth. Hey Ozark, been there done that! Nice pictires at one of my favorite campsites and fishing spots in the BWCA! Stayed there three different times on three different trips and like you I nailed smallmouth all day long. Tom

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ozarkpaddler

07/01/2009 01:50AM

Don't you get a "Kick" out of it when someone posts a picture and you know exactly where it is? Good smallie fishing in that area, isn't there? TW

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain

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card0056

07/01/2009 02:08PM

Thats a good string of fish. Thanks both ozark and tmcd for the tips about staying in the lakes to the north, I was considering doing that but it's tough to get an idea looking at a map. The scenery looks great. I'll pick a few smaller lakes that you mentioned and base camp there. Lakers and Walleye snub me as as well, it seems I am destined for Bass and Northern. Maybe I need to learn more patience or maybe I am too patient. Thanks. TC

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card0056

07/02/2009 03:35PM

Any input on the camp sites/lakes on Rabbit, Gijijiki, Cherry Lake or Clam Lake in that general area?

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onajourney

07/02/2009 04:35PM

We stayed on the Island site on Giji. It was nice, but we only had one tent. I can't remember how many tent pads there were. The Lake is beautiful and we had it all to ourselves.

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tmcd

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07/02/2009 08:37PM

I do love It Ozark, camped there on my first trip to bw with my girlfriend. I married that girl and spent part of my honeymoon at that Ester sight also. So its sort of special and I love to see pictures of it and others enjoying it as much as we did. Tom

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croixboy96

07/11/2009 12:12PM

Morgan Lake. It's secluded, only one permit a day, and from what I hear the fishing is pretty good on the way to Vista. I'm taking this route for the first time in Sept. Maybe I can give you a confirmation on the fishing at that point.

David

"Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left." - Ty Webb

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