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danjb
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10/31/2014 08:43PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Thinking about next year. One thought was going in with Harlan's shuttle to Leano and going out with his water shuttle. Any thoughts about distances and difficulty. There are two of us one is 60 the other 58. We usually have 8 days and 7 nights to trip. One of us is obsessive fisherman. Would there be walleye throughout the trip?
Thanks for any ideas.
Dan
 
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ECpizza
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11/01/2014 12:20AM  
I can't speak to fishing..

Harlan is the best source for planning your trip with your needs. Since some 60 year olds put my fitness to shame, some look ready to drop if there is a stiff breeze. As a 45 yr old of "Average" condition, I found the loop from Leano to MH to South Aegean and through Paull to be not overly strenuous, but it easily could have been in the right (wrong) conditions.

I'm still processing the whole trip 3 months later.
 
11/01/2014 01:16AM  
Your best fishing is Mexican Hat and Glenn as far as I know. I'm thinking your looking at going through Optic, Embryo and Hatchet to get to Douglas. We met some folks going in from Johnson to Embryo and thought they were going in to fish. We only caught Northern on Optic ourselves.
 
Marten
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11/01/2014 07:18AM  
I think the trip would work for you. Second and third night on Mexican Hat. Three and four on Glenn. Five on Embryo with night six on Hatchet where you will only have Lakers and big Northerns but back to Walleye on Douglas for your last night. This schedule would have you camped on Walleye waters all but nights one and six.
 
11/01/2014 02:21PM  

The below link helps determine what fish species are present in each lake.

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Marten
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11/01/2014 08:14PM  
That info lists Walleye for Hatchet but some locals I ran into said no. We have never caught one there either. Anyone caught a Walleye on Hatchet Lake?
 
11/02/2014 02:44PM  
We had good luck on Glenn in mid-July for walleyes. Carol would have been better (further northwest) if the weather had been better. Douglas had a least one hotspot for walleyes as well -- not too far south from the portage out in the direction of Johnson. We couldn't find any campsites on Hatchet but then we only searched on exiting the portage and headed south on our way to Douglas.
 
11/02/2014 07:12PM  
quote Marten: "That info lists Walleye for Hatchet but some locals I ran into said no. We have never caught one there either. Anyone caught a Walleye on Hatchet Lake?"

Well.....OK Then!
 
11/10/2014 10:31AM  
There's 2 campsites on Upper Hatchet.
 
11/10/2014 11:18AM  
quote jcavenagh: "There's 2 campsites on Upper Hatchet."


Thanks! Guessing they are at the north/northeast end of the lake. We didn't see any from the portage south. We scanned that southwest bay with binoculars from about the Viking air cabin but nothing was visible.

Next time we'll turn north!
 
Marten
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11/10/2014 07:39PM  
Hatchet Camp|

A good camp is located at 50.988557 94.306297 on this map
 
11/11/2014 03:51PM  
Upper Hatchet Campsites:
50.969556, -94.341084 - Andy and I stayed here in 2014.
50.975776, -94.326380 = Island site we were told about.
 
11/11/2014 07:12PM  
quote jcavenagh: "Upper Hatchet Campsites:
50.969556, -94.341084 - Andy and I stayed here in 2014.
50.975776, -94.326380 = Island site we were told about.
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Marten and Jcavenaugh - thanks. We ate lunch at the first campsite on Upper Hatchet after we paddled away from the portage. We crossed the lake to the second but the little island was loaded with seagulls (?) however right behind on that eastern shore was a campsite a bit of climb off the water and boulder/rock garden takeout.

We stopped but the site was in pretty rough shape. Someone had abandoned a shredded tent, tent-poles and all! Looks like it had a burn hole in one of the sides.

Can only guess what the story was behind that. I'll look for the Hatchet site on next year's trip. Good to know.

Thanks to you both for sharing the info. Hope it also helps danjb too!
 
Marten
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11/11/2014 08:18PM  
The site on Hatchet has 4 tent pads and a common area for cooking. If it is taken when you get there you can proceed to the portage to Peterson and camp at that landing. Not as nice but OK in a pinch. Hatchet Lake tends to have timber right down to the shore in most places. There are probably a lot of potential campsites a few meters into the trees.
 
11/14/2014 05:06AM  
I saw one boat on the bloodvien river, I saw one boat on Knox. Donald had some private cabins on it and they have boats also. WCPP is a wild place, it has some lakes with outposts and private cabins. Once in a while you see a boat stashed on a portage. It does not take away from the wilderness experience for me, as it may some.
I paddled from Artery up the bloodvien then turned south down to Dunstan. I found the bloodvien rather a blah river to paddle. except for the nice stands of birch, and the moose I saw. it was low water when I did it and not much current, well you can tell you are paddling against the current, but it was not bad at all. The route from the Bloodvien down to Simeons and Dunstan and down to Royd was OUTSTANDING!!!!

SunCatcher
 
11/14/2014 12:23PM  
quote SunCatcher: " The route from the Bloodvien down to Simeons and Dunstan and down to Royd was OUTSTANDING!!!!


SunCatcher"




I hope so... I want to include that on part of my trips next summer.
 
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