Can someone tell me how you can get to Jackfish Bay from Basswood with a motorized boat? If I am correctly reading the regulations and the no motor signs I've seen, you cannot go north of Washington island. Just curious, and thank you in advance for any responses.

God bless.

As stupid as it sounds you are correct, you can't take a motorboat around US Point. You have to bring portage wheels and take the portage out of Back Bay . The portage brings you into Pipestone Bay then you can go Lewis Narrows into Jackfish Bay.

Thank you very much!

quote Sundog99: "Can someone tell me how you can get to jackfish bay from basswood with a motorized boat? If I am reading the regulations and the no motor signs I've seen correctly, you cannot go north of Washington island. Just curious, and thank you in advance for any responses.

God bless."

I may be splitting hairs, but you don't get to Jackfish Bay from Basswood, as Jackfish Bay is part of Basswood.

I mean really..
The way you guys name your lakes....
Take Moose,Newfound, Sucker and Birch...
Really just 1 body of water. 1 lake. How do they get 4 lakes out of that.

Maybe they should call it Jackfish lake.
Then they can say 10,001 lakes...

Moose ,Newfound, Sucker and Birch were all individual lakes before the Prairie Portage dam was built. The dam was built around the turn of the century and rebuilt again in the mid 1970s. It was rebuilt to control the water levels for navigation. Hardly sounds like something that  should happen in a "wilderness area". There are close to 2 dozen dams in and around the bwca. Not all of them still control the water flow anymore. Some are falling apart.

 Just think if the dams were gone. Like Prairie Portage, Fall, Garden, Kawishiwi. etc.......
If  bwca was returned to a true wilderness,  we couldn't navigate by canoe like we do today. 

yogi59weedr  what did you do for work that you were able to retire at 50? I wouldn't normally ask that, however with the retirement thread it got me wondering.

I worked as a correctional officer at a minimum security Illinois state prison for 28 yrs