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GoCobbers95
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08/23/2019 08:24PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Hi all!

First year in many that I am base camping. Stuart Lake. Excited to fish, cook ridiculously good food, sightsee, and relax! My crew and I are in great shape and above average paddlers. Considering a few different day trips, open to others! What is realistic from Stuart Lake?
- Pictographs on Lac La Croix
- Boathouse north of Agnes (on Lac La Croix?)
- Falls going into Stuart from Dahlgren River

What am I missing? Anything worth seeing in iron lake? What else is out there? Curtain falls is a bit long for a day trip I imagine?

Thanks in advance everyone!
 
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08/23/2019 09:48PM  
Rebecca Falls is doable as is Warrior Hill and pictographs.
08/24/2019 06:47PM  
All of those are doable.
Hike up to the overlook on the South shore of Stuart is worth it. Great view.
Walleye fishing on Rush Lake was good for us and shore lunch on the Island site there is fun.

Georgiapaddler31
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08/25/2019 04:42PM  
GoCobbers95: "Hi all!

First year in many that I am base camping. Stuart Lake. Excited to fish, cook ridiculously good food, sightsee, and relax! My crew and I are in great shape and above average paddlers. Considering a few different day trips, open to others! What is realistic from Stuart Lake?
- Pictographs on Lac La Croix
- Boathouse north of Agnes (on Lac La Croix?)
- Falls going into Stuart from Dahlgren River

What am I missing? Anything worth seeing in iron lake? What else is out there? Curtain falls is a bit long for a day trip I imagine?

Thanks in advance everyone!
"


Would you go up Dahlgren to get to Lac La Croix? I stayed on the north end of Stuart a couple of years ago, and I think it took us about three hours or so to make it to the northwest end of Iron. Maybe an hour to get from there to Curtain Falls.
fishnfreak
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09/14/2019 12:51PM  
Go over to sterling lake. Thank me later!
09/15/2019 06:43AM  
fishnfreak: "Go over to sterling lake. Thank me later!"


Was that a tough bushwhack? About how long did it take to get there?
fishnfreak
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09/15/2019 04:55PM  
not tough at all by bushwhack standards. Just a couple of hours over there. The first time might take you longer, the way back is much quicker once you know the way and land markers.
SinglePortage
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09/19/2019 02:50PM  
What fish species are in sterling?
a former member
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10/05/2019 04:48PM  
fishnfreak: "not tough at all by bushwhack standards. Just a couple of hours over there. The first time might take you longer, the way back is much quicker once you know the way and land markers."


or do what I did and keep bushwacking east with all your gear to the beartrap river and take that north to iron.

Only do this route if you want the hardest possible route to iron :)

seriously tho I would maybe go in and back out on a day trip to get the extra remote and untouched wilderness experience.
a former member
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10/05/2019 04:52PM  
I saw a bunch of giant suckers hanging out in the rapids/current when i was lining my canoe through an area just before or just after sterling lake. I spooked the whole school of them and they rushed out past me into the lake. I didn't have time to fish this area but it looked worth trying.
 
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