BWCA Entry Point, Route, and Trip Report Blog
April 29 2024
Entry Point 23 - Mudro Lake
Number of Permits per Day: 5
Elevation: 1166 feet
Latitude: 48.0356
Longitude: -91.8301
On the Water- Monday July 20th-
On the water late considering how far we need to go today. Up the Horse river to the falls by 6pm. Started raining and NO campsites available. Mudrow-Alruss-Tin can Mike-Horse Lake-Horse River-Basswood. 13 miles by water. (not counting portages)
Tuesday July 21st-
Rain all night, all morning and all day. Went north by petroglyphs, table rock and the the Crocked Lake Narrows across Thursday bay to campsite. Basswood-Crooked Lake-Wednesday Bay-Thursday Bay. 11 miles in the rain.
Wednesday July 22nd-
Up early and calm winds to take advantage of, considering the big water we have to cross. Found beaver dam to lift over and did a portage from hell between Pandos lake and Chippewa Lake. VERY steep and slippery after rain. Many mud holes. Then the mile portage after Wagosh Lake to Gun Lake. Never saw another soul in a canoe or campsite the entire day! Thursday bay-Friday Bay-Pandos Lake-Chippewa Lake-Wagosh lake-Gun Lake. 11 miles by water.
Thursday July 23rd-
Finally had a dry night. got everything dry!!! A few portages today to Fourtown Lake campsite. Easy day by comparison. Gun Lake-Fairy Lake-Boot Lake-Fourtown Lake. 6 miles. Put the long miles at the first of the week for a buffer for contingencies!
Friday July 24th-
Last day. Stormed last night bad. A few portages today with one bad one between Fourtown Lake and Mudrow lake. To entry point by 1pm. Ready for a hot shower! 4 miles
Total-
45 miles by water
13 miles by portage (3 trips each)
58 miles total.
Oyster, Ge-be, L.L.C.
Entry Date:
May 25, 2010
Entry Point:
Moose/Portage River (north)
Number of Days:
5
Group Size:
3
I met Dan and Dylan in Ely at the ranger station, picked up our permit and consolidated our gear. We headed out to the bunkhouse at Echo Trail Outfitters and loaded up our MNIII. Echo Trail Outfitters is currently being ran by the ambitious young couple that has been running the Fenske lake cabins for a while. They have been really fixing up the facilities and are great people to deal with. As for us three we had a few beers and hit the bunks about 10:30.
Day 1 Wednesday May 26th E.P.16
Our alarm went off just as planned at 4:00 am. I was amazed to see all three of us up and actively getting ready within 5 minutes. Since we had packed 100% the night before we were on the road by 4:30 and unloaded with our cars parked at the entry point by 5:00am. 5:00am has been our put-in-time goal every year but it usually gets to be 6:00 or 7:00 before we actually put in. Our extra preparation and smaller group size made things go a lot smoother. We were floating in the Moose river by 5:30. Two miles of winding river and two short portages gets us to Nina Moose lake and two to three more miles and two medium length portages got us through Agnes lake and to the 160 rod portage into the Oyster river. We had only brought along three packs. A food pack, another large canoe pack, a lighter backpack for the guy portaging the canoe and of course our rod tubes. We single portage on every trip and today it was really paying off. We were traveling fast and we barely broke a sweat on the portages. We even saw a Pink Lady Slipper on the 160 rod portage into the Oyster river. By now we were glad to have left the busy Agnes route behind and were ready to get into some interior lakes. We were on the Oyster river and hit our halfway point for the day by 8:30. The scenery really started to get beautiful as we portaged into Oyster lake. This lake was prettier than I remembered,the wind was light and all was good in our world as we headed to the northern most point of Oyster and the portage into Rocky Lake. 
Rocky and Green are picturesque little lakes that are perfectly named. The water was a foot or so low on these lakes and the put-ins and take outs were very rocky and technical. We managed to take it slow and we forged through unscathed. As we came down the 120rod portage into Ge-be-on-equet lake we were happy to see would be basecamping on a beautiful lake. We got the campsite we wanted on the northwest side of the northeastern arm. And it was only 11:00. We were glad our paddling and portaging was done for the day after all we had gone over 14 miles. 
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Day 2 Relaxation
Day 2 was spent basecamping and fishing on Ge-be lake. The fishing overall was fair but we did manage to catch two nice Walleyes and a handful of Smallies. We ate two fish meals this day. This site suited us well and decided to give it 3-1/2 stars. The weather on this trip was perfect, probably the best we have seen on a May or June trip. 
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Day 3 Lac LaCroix Daytrip
Friday we got up about 8:00, loaded fishing gear and breakfast provisions into our canoes and set off for Lac LaCroix. Ge-be-on-equet creek was very low and may have been unnavigateable had we been loaded down with our canoe packs. We found a nice spot on the shoreline of LLC for our shore breakfast and shore fishing. Dylan prepared the grittle cakes on the camp stove while Dan and I proceded to catch fish. Smallies, Northerns and Walleyes were biting veraciously. We decided to keep four Walleyes for lunch and dinner that day. We were glad we made the trip to LLC, one of our favorite lakes. [paragraph break]
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Day 4 Back to Oyster
Day four we broke camp and made it to Oyster lake by 10:00. We got to the site at the base of the peninsula that we wanted just as a group was clearing out. Traveling early and light payed off again. Smallmouth Bass did oblige but several hours of trolling for Lake Trout proved fruitless. I guess it was just as well as we had already eaten fried Walleye with yellow rice, pan broiled Walleye with pesto pasta, creamy wild rice soup with walleye, Zatarans Gumbo with Walleye not to mention the gill hooked Smallmouth we blackened the first day. We would have to endure our last day without a fish meal. Our hammocks were used much this day and as the sun set over the bay on Oyster and we poured the last of our whiskey into our cups we savored the peace and tranquility of this beautiful place. 
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Day 5 Oyster On Out
We got another early start in hopes of not meeting a lot of people on this busy route as it was the day before Memorial day. We passed two groups that were heading out and all eight groups heading in but still managed to get to our vehicles by 11:00. As usual we were already planning our next trip as we headed to Ely for our traditional burgers, fries, salads and of course a cold one.