Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Quetico Forum :: Agnes to Kawnipi
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Voyageur67 |
MarshallPrime: "We will be going to Kawnipi around that same time. |
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dentondoc |
Base on your choices, if it were my trip, I'd select the route that puts me nearest where I want to be when I reach Kawnipi. None of the routes are particularly challenging. However, if you take the Murdock route, pack up your rods before you start. If you drop a line in Murdock, chances are you won't reach Kawnipi that same day. dd |
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Voyageur67 |
We will likely now go through the middle or Murdoch Lake route into McKenzie Bay. Thanks again for your help! |
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carmike |
Of course, then you'd be zipping through some very good fishing water indeed. I have been up there many times, and in my experience, Keewatin is the poorest fishing of the three options. Not sure if that's common, but it's been so for me. Just my .02. |
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Wally13 |
I have been on about every route you can go with to get to McKenzie Bay Kawnipi Lake. Old Salt is spot on with going in via tow to Hook Island and going in Cache Bay Entry and going thru the Falls Chain as the shortest and quickest way to get to McKenzie Bay. I estimate: Prairie Portage-Agnes-Bird-Anubis-McKenzie Bay/ Kawnipi 34.6 total miles 28.3 paddle miles 6.3 portage miles 13 hr. 46 min. Total Time Prairie Portage-Agnes-Murdock-McKenzie Bay/ Kawnipi 30.5 total miles 24.5 paddle miles 6.0 portage miles 12 hr. 16 min Total Time Hook Island tow-Cache Bay-Falls Chain-McKenzie Bay/ Kawnipi 28.0 total miles 23.0 paddle miles 5.0 portage miles 11 hr. 39 min. Total Time All the above routes usually means reaching McKenzie Bay in 1 1/2 days with double portaging. I have flown into Clay Lake 3 times from Moose Lake and gone into Kawnipi via the Waiwag. That was back when airplane fuel was quite a bit cheaper and flight costs were reasonable for a group of 4. We reached McKenzie Bay once in one full day of paddling but that was when there was only one portage. There used to be 4 log jams and that increased portage time quite a bit, so we would normally camp on Kawa Bay on night one and reach McKenzie Bay late morning on Day 2. I believe there is only 1 portage now as log jams have been blown out. Have fun |
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MarshallPrime |
What are your dates? We will be entering Cache bay on Sun June 10th, get to Kawnipi Mon afternoon and not sure where we are heading to camp. 2 nights on McKenzie Bay and 2 on Kawa I assume. We will have 2 canoes, 4 men. Feel free to stop by and say hi. I assume we will be reeling in a walleye...or if that gets slow, wait, who am I kidding, we will be catching a walleye. Have a great trip. Hopefully the ice is gone by then. ;) |
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Voyageur67 |
Our time is somewhat limited so we would like to get to Kawnipi as quickly as possible. Which of these three routes is the preferred way to enter into Kawnipi? Thank you |
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old_salt |
That said, I would pick Murdoch, if you want to go through Agnes. |
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Eyedocron |
A very nice loop is to go Prairie Portage/ Agnes/Falls Chain/ Man Chain/Carp and back. A nice advantage of this is that if you get to Prairie Portage and a large wind is on Bayley Bay, Just do the loop counter clockwise instead of clockwise. |
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HighnDry |
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