Some items to take on a canoe trip:
- Rod and reel with 6-8 lb test line. It's ok to take more than 1 rod/reel, just be careful you are only using one at a time per person. MN DNR rules.
- Floating lures - working top water is great late June into September when fishing for bass
- Countdown lures - getting down to where walleyes are takes some planning. Lures that are designed for 15-20 feet used while trolling work well
- Jigs with twister tails or artificial bait - jigging is a good method to get deep, working a foot or so off the bottom of the lake.
- Spinner bait to work the weed beds - fish go looking for food (bait fish) and a place to hide in the weeds. Yes, you might get your lure stuck in the weeds...but fish where the fish are.
- Live bait, i.e. minnows, leeches, crawlers, are allowed in the Boundary Waters. Be sure to change water between lakes so as not to take an invasive species into another lake
- Fillet knife - think positive...you are going to catch a fish big enough to fillet and eat
Register Your Fish
If you fish lakes in the Ely area, BWCA or Quetico this summer, be sure to register your fish at Spirit of the Wilderness, Ely MN to enter the Angler Fishing Contest. Free registration, get your picture in the Angler paper and best of all...you just might win!
We register both catch and released as well as those fish that are kept.
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