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rmessner
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02/07/2012 04:54PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
First time in this area for me. Does anyone have experience in this area durring Early July?

My son wants to fish smallies, but I'd rather catch Walleye, and northerns are allways fun. Thanks.
 
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02/07/2012 11:06PM  
Send me your email (click on the envelope icon under my name) and I'll email you a map of Gabbro all marked up. I'm going to that same area on July 6th, when are you going in?

Welcome to the board by the way.
 
mr.barley
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02/07/2012 11:19PM  
Don't forget about crappies on gabbro.
 
rmessner
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02/08/2012 07:35PM  
Thanks everyone. We'll be going in on the first, and stay until Friday.

I didn't know there were crappies there. ;)
 
02/08/2012 07:50PM  
Email sent. Just reread your note, if you have time for a day trip to Turtle lake it's a fun pike lake. Make sure to tell your son to keep his fingers out of the water :) a pike hit my lure so close to the boat last year (less than 6 inches) it splashed me. Never saw it coming, must have come from under the canoe.
 
rmessner
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02/08/2012 10:46PM  
We have heard stories about the northerns on Turtle. We will definitely do that at least once. I hear the portage is no fun getting there though. I wonder how well they'll bite in July though??
 
02/08/2012 11:36PM  
Not the easiest portage. There is a really cool feature about half way across. You're walking along and it flattens out a bit and you look to the side and see this large crack/gap in the rock with a pretty large drop right in the middle of the trees.

So you are coming out on Friday? We may run into each other, we're going in Friday. You'll have to give me updates on the fishing if we do :)
 
rmessner
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02/09/2012 03:43PM  
I will definitely look for you on Friday. I'll be easy to spot. Not too many other camo Golden Hawk canoes there I'm betting. The other family we're going with will be renting kevlar canoes. I guess I'm just a glutten for punishment.
 
ericho23
  
02/29/2012 08:44PM  
@gsfisher13 Our group is going in early August, if I sent you an email with my info, would you mind sending me a copy of the lake map marked up? Thanks in advance.
 
02/29/2012 09:01PM  
quote ericho23: "@gsfisher13 Our group is going in early August, if I sent you an email with my info, would you mind sending me a copy of the lake map marked up? Thanks in advance."
Email sent.
 
BWfishingfanatic12
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03/05/2012 09:24PM  
I was in this area 5 years ago and it was one of my better trips fishing wise in the boundary waters. Stayed one night on Gabbro, one on Pietro, and one on Bald Eagle. Gabbro is a big lake and has some really good fishing spots to check out. The fishing spots on the maps section of this site would give you some ideas and what type of fish is caught in each spot. We has success at both the rapids in and out of Gabbro. Our best lake for success was Pietro though. We had non-stop action from about 4 in the afternoon to dark. Mostly smalmouth but towards dusk we caught some nice walleyes as well. Between 3 of us fishing we had to have caught 75 smallies, 15 walleyes, and a few northern. Fished a little on Gull on the way through and caught a few in like a half hour and were going to come back but there was no need to once we got to Pietro. Didn't fish Turtle at all because I hate northerns!
 
griswold
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03/06/2012 07:23AM  
FishFan12,
I'll be canoeing through Gabbro this June and would appreciate any additional detailed info. You seem willing to share your spots so I'll take any info. you're willing to divulge.
Email me @ bmarty@selectmedicalcorp.com
Thanks and have a blessed day! I
 
hoffy
  
06/14/2015 01:07PM  
BWCA and forum noob here that will also be taking my first, of hopefully many, trip up there next month and staying on Gabbro. Any fishing advice would be greatly appreciated.

gsfisher13, I'll send you a pm...if you're willing to share your map with another our group would really like some info.

Thanks in advance for the info I take off here in the next few weeks!


Erik

Edit:
Sorry to drag up an old post...found it on the search. I checked the dates, but I'm a little tired and saw that 2012 as a 2015.
 
Guest Paddler
  
03/21/2016 09:01PM  
Please send me marked map of Lake Gabbro. Eugene G. at bg.groenke@gmail.com
 
Saberboys
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05/23/2018 11:16AM  
Hi gsfisher13! We are heading to the Gabbro area in late June, would you be willing to share any fishing info?!

Thanks!
Sabers
 
05/23/2018 03:13PM  


Got this bad boy on gabbro side of bald eagle Rapids
 
buzz17
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05/24/2018 08:16AM  
I have been to Gabbro a couple of times in May. Check out the trip reports by thlipsis29. We did well with big pike, crappie, eater walleye, big perch and some nice smallies. I am interested in mid to late summer reports this year, Gabbro is one of our options for the 3rd week of August.
 
CanoeIowa
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05/24/2018 09:41AM  
The channel from Little Gabro to Gabro has always produced walleye for us along with a couple of red eyes. Another place which is fun and produces a lot of fish is the small river/creek and small water fall on the north end of Little Gabbro. Great location where you can get out of the canoe and fish and explore alittle.
 
bb.groenke@gmail.com
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04/07/2019 06:23PM  
gsfisher13: "Send me your email (click on the envelope icon under my name) and I'll email you a map of Gabbro all marked up. I'm going to that same area on July 6th, when are you going in?

Welcome to the board by the way."
Please send me a marked up fishing map of Gabbro Lake, Thanks, Eugene Groenke at (bg.groenke@gmail.com)
 
Eugene Groenke
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04/07/2019 06:25PM  
Please send me a marked up map of Garrro Lake.
 
Lannie
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04/08/2019 07:44PM  
I fished Gabbro and Bald Eagle about 10 years ago. All the suggestions will get you on fish. I was fishing it before a lot of online info was available so I just Lindy rigged and drifted across the main body of Gabbro. Just keep letting out enough line to stay in contact with the bottom. You should catch enough walleye to eat and get some smallies thrown in. Once you hook a fish or miss a bite, through a marker and drift that spot again. If you get bit in that same spot, then stop and jig. Every serious fisherman should have a marker or two in the canoe. You can cover a lot of water by drifting and find those spots holding fish and then zero in on them by jigging.
 
Wallski
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04/08/2019 09:50PM  
Gabs is pretty much fished out of crappies thanks to me.
 
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