Quote Originally Posted by tyger View Post
I know what you mean about having plenty of rods. I have a bunch that I should give to a scout club or something. That will make room for me to acquire a few more.

Here is a picture of Carol and the cats (in the cat carrier, center of boat) and all our stuff (well, not all; we pack away the Christmas tree, fish fryer, bread machine, etc for the winter and leave it there) portaging from Ontario into MN. Then 1,376 miles back to Georgia.

I see you are in the motorable portion of the BWCA/Quetico. Our trip started and finished on motorable water but we spent the middle 8 days in the non-motorable (except the rangers) area, seeing less than 8-10 other humans per day on any given day. Before my flyfishing days, but spinning gear brought home some nice pike, walleye or largemouths for supper each and every evening. We habitated two different campsites for a few days each making day trips and portages to fish and other sites, then moved to the last night's campsite where we obviously cleaned our fish too close to the campsite and coaxed in the bear that ruined the finish of the trip. Outfitters jokingly called him Three-Toe when we showed them where our last nights campsite was, as I guess there was some history of a certain bear in that area and specific campsite (wish they had told us that when we planned out our route with them at the beginning of the trip). Would love to hunt pike, walleye, smallies and bigmouths with the fly rod next time around, and already have several boxes of special flies tied from a Canada trip a few years back.