Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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Dad, uncle, brother and I canoed into Crooked Lake (Friday Bay) back in the mid 90's, fished walleye and small mouth. Pretty much all we took were hooks and sinkers....and 5lbs. of leaches. The Fishing was outstanding but we lost lots of hooks to northerns.
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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Been a long time but went up there about 10 years in a row with students in late 70’s early 80’s. Had to finally stop going when school said too much liability for that trip. My students and I had the time of our life. Best fishing was with leaches on slip bobbers. Top water lures for bass, spoons for northern. I think we were boated across moose lake ( bad lake to canoe since it is huge) and portages into Ensign lake ( I think) and set up a base camp ( points are best camping spots in my opinion. Breezes help keep mosquitos down and bears only have one direction to come in.
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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330, as for lures I would bring a swallow running plastic body bait (whatever brand you're a fan of) a count down style plastic body bait, a shad rap style of plastic body bait and STEEL LEADERS..
Pure Blood
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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I guided fishing trips on the BWCA back in 1983 out of Grand Marais and I can recommend some great lakes if you're going to that part of the boundary waters. Only went to the BWCA out of Ely once so I couldn't give you much on that area of the boundary waters.
Depends on species you want to target and time of year you're planning on making your trip as to which lakes and/or lures you'd want to use.
Mr. CBD
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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My Daughter is Taking me to the BWCA on another Canoe trip.
This trip we are looking for better fishing lakes
What are some favorite casting lures and Good lakes? First thing you need to do is check out all the info at:www.bwca.com Everything you need to know is there, unless you already have your entry permit where you go fishing could be affected by what permits are available for when you go. Each entry point has a daily limit and some are already gone for year. I would advise against Ensign lake as it is heavily used anymore and some sites have bear problems. I've taken a tow across Moose to the portage ( more like a hump ) to Birch and paddled to the portages on Carp-Melon-Seed then the longer portage to Knife. This is the border route the Voyagers used in the fur trade days. Paddle to the South Arm of Knife and make a base camp. You can do this in a day easy if you get the first tow of the morning. South arm of Knife has some really good fishing. Going the other way out of Moose can get you to Basswood which is a huge lake but the smallmouth fishing was incredible and caught walleye over 7 pounds. We weren't that far into Basswood from the portage either.
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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Jigs, spoons, and crankbaits for throwing out behind the canoe. You can catch just about everything with those essentials.
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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When are you going? My favorite changes every time I go. Was on Stuart and iron last spring and walleye hit anything you cast. I caught some on flies in 8 fow. Caught some nice pike as well. In the summer, I went to big moose and stayed a week hammering smallmouth with some giants. Best they hit that week was rattle traps in dull colors. I remove the hooks, run the line through the eye and thru the rear hook eye and tie on the hook. It lets the bait slide up the line when they jump. Helps with hook throws, don’t tear up their face or mouth, and much easier and safer to release.
Fall, I went in on baker #39 and went all the way up to north temperance. Couldnt buy a bite till south temperance. It was still slow but I caught one good walleye, and the rest were small. I tried trolling, jigging, drifting, bottom fishing, you name it. Very tough. Seen four moose starting at Peterson and on north.
It was cold and rainy that week in October so probably slower everywhere. I couldn’t go till June first this year but I’m going back to Stuart for a couple days. I have a pma permit starting the third so I’m gonna camp on sterling for 3 days and then who knows. I may go east toward bear trap or backtrack to Stuart and go Northrop iron. I have 10 days. Seriously, I’ve caught fish on literally everytng. Just a matter of finding them. A lot of those lakes are featureless. Like a big bathtub. I like to troll crank baits to find fish and then I just keep drifting over that spot jigging. You may have to add weight to get trolled baits deep enough.
The later in he year, the deeper they are. I want to take some live bait but that trip to the Stuart river is a bear. Not to mention how tough it could be in the pma. Every time I go in summer, the flies have been brutal. I try to camp on a point where there’s wind in my face and it seemed to help. I also carry a screen house to sleep in. Last summer I had it draped over my boat while I drifted. Well worth 15 bucks and weighs almost nothing. I want to target Lakers and go soon after ice out. I been told they can be found in shallow till it starts warming up.
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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Jigs, spoons, and crankbaits for throwing out behind the canoe. You can catch just about everything with those essentials. This is solid advice. If I could take only one lure it would be a spoon.
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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I guided fishing trips on the BWCA back in 1983 out of Grand Marais and I can recommend some great lakes if you're going to that part of the boundary waters. Only went to the BWCA out of Ely once so I couldn't give you much on that area of the boundary waters.
Depends on species you want to target and time of year you're planning on making your trip as to which lakes and/or lures you'd want to use.
We might be leaving out of Grand Marias...my daughter & Son in law are planning our Route. With my assistance With regulations constantly changing you'll want to look up site specific regs. Last I heard Lake Saganaga(AKA Big Sag), the lake I did most of my guiding on, has reduced the limit of walleyes to 2 per day. Not sure of size or slot though. Many of the smaller lakes, in that part of the BWCA, seem to have one or two dominant species. So you may want to make a circle route and hit several different lakes for several different species. Let me know if you're headed up to that part of the BWCA and I'll be happy to help you with what I can.
Mr. CBD
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Re: Best lures and lakes ?? BWCA
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Texas rigged Beaver baits, Dirty Jig jigs, weightless zoom super flukes, Pepper baits Spinner baits etc drop shots etc
- 330 Belisle
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