I will be going up in a couple weeks, entering at Beaverhouse. Are there any reports regarding the black fly situation this year? I am hoping the peak will be over by late June.

Black flies were bad the last week of May. We were in the Ranger bay area on Basswood.

Black flies usually peak the first big warm up of the year. Meaning now.

They were pretty bad in late May\early June. On the bright side saw the fewest skeeters ever.

Ten days ago in the Q I had lots of gnats but, thank God, they did not seem to be of the biting variety. At least most of them

I got out on June 9th after a week. The first three and a half days were exceptionally wet and cold with few bugs. (The night time lows just above zero.) The second half of the fourth day the sun came out with a mid 70’s temperature and the bugs started to arrive. The fifth and sixth day were hideous with temperatures in the high 80’s. Even though I camped on a windy point on day 5 the black flies were awful and were troublesome on the water in windless areas. It is not fun living in covering clothing above 80. On day 6 the wind was even stronger and there were no blackflies or mosquitoes. But there swarms of ankle biters that were landing on any exposed surface. There were so many I had to run into the water for my swim as they were all over me. To get into the tent I ran in a circle and over fifty still got into the tent. When I added water to my soup there were over 15 floating in it. The last day was no problem because I was paddling into a really strong wind.

QueticoMike: "They were pretty bad in late May\early June. On the bright side saw the fewest skeeters ever."

+1. Few mosquitoes... but they were big and easy to spot!

Just finished a week on the Turtle River northeast of Quetico. Only had one lunch stop at Horse Falls at which we experienced a lot of black flies, otherwise not too bad. Don't know if we just missed them or just beat them. Good luck!

Thanks to everyone for your responses! It sounds like the peak black fly hatch is happening now. Hopefully it will be over in a couple weeks!