Just got back from my 1st BWCA trip a couple weeks ago and was told I am in charge of planning the trip for next year. We generally like to go the 1st or 2nd week of September, but may look at maybe a late summer trip.

I have been looking at the Hog Creek to Perent trip. I have been going on the message boards looking at info, but all the info I seem to find is a few years old. Can anyone give me any reports that have been there recently? How was Hog Creek? Are there still walleyes and northerns to be caught? Saw one post that mentioned smallmouth. Others say there are none there.

I understand it can get quite windy, something that can't be controlled. Just need to make the best of it. I'm just looking for a nice easy paddle in and to basecamp for the week and do some fishing.

Is there anything up the Perent River worth seeing? From things I've read, I understand there was a fire up that way at one point? Just looking for some current info on it.

Thanks for any info!!!

Pike and Northern are still there and in good numbers. Hog Creek is easy to navigate and won't be windy. Once on the lake you might have some wind but once you get to a site you will be set for the week. I like to fish the east side between shore and islands or the north side of the lake. There isn't much up that river unless you want to look at what a forest fire does which is kind of neat. I was here last year.

My family and I went to Perent through Hog Creek mid August this year. It was a lot of fun. The paddle down the Creek tested our patience with two adults and six kids divided between three canoes. We found a sweet site on an island on the east side. Caught walleyes trolling Rapala's not far from our site. All in all, a great trip!

Hog Creek always looks Moosey. Did you see any?

I've been there three different times in the last eight years and encourage you to go and enjoy! I've been there in late June and in early September. The creek water level was higher in June, but good enough in September too.

Yes, when wind kicks up, it can get choppy quick, but I've had to leave on a day it was choppy and managed fine in a loaded solo Yellowstone. It's all about how you cut through the troughs, right? On calm sunny days, glare-cutting glasses are a must. This lake has giant boulders submerged just below water line in places you would not expect. ;-)

I suck at fishing. Can't help you there.

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Could be my age and complaining joints, but I didn't think a trip westward on the Perent River would not be worth the efforts. All those put-ins & take-outs & short portages to a burned (but recovering) area. Not "fun" for me. Think of all those hungry mosquitoes with no breeze to ward them off. Yikes.

Tips: a canoe with rocker is your best ally on the twisty Hog Creek. S-curve after S-curve. at a leisurely pace, 1 hr. 20 mins. to reach Perent.

I had heard through this site that there was a decent chance of seeing a moose so I tried hard to spot one. But unsuccessful. There are a few trails up to the creek that sure seem like a good place to see one though. I forgot to mention, on the way into Perent we had to pull our canoes across 1 beaver dam that wasn't real far from the short portage. Well on the way back after we crossed the 1 beaver dam we ran into another one! I thought for sure we had taken a wrong turn down one of the fingers that branch off the creek. I sent my 2 oldest daughters across the dam in their canoe and told them to go try and find the portage thinking to myself they wouldn't. Sure enough they did! Them darn beavers had a new dam built from Friday morning when we went in to Sunday morning about 8 a.m. I couldn't believe it. Boy was I happy to find the portage though!