Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Fishing Forum :: McAree and vicinity
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MichiganMan: "rpike: "plander: "rpike: "Thanks, plander! Looks like an amur pike in your profile pic" I was living in Shanghai at the time and couldn't get to Quetico that year so decided to do a fishing trip in Mongolia with a buddy. That Pike was caught on the Onon River using an 8 wt rod/9 wt floating line and Clouser minnow. Also caught Taimen, Amur Trout, and Lenok using dry flies/terrestrials. That trip turned me on to fly fishing. Since then, I bring a fly rod to the BWCA/Q about 50% of the time. Nothing beats catching a SMB on the fly rod. |
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rpike |
Are Pond, Pulling, and Dahlin worth the trip? I know big lakes = big fish, but if the spring is very late the small lakes may be warmer. |
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rpike |
plander: "rpike: "Thanks, plander! Looks like an amur pike in your profile pic" Story behind that? |
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rpike |
Walleye fishing was outstanding in both McAree and Iron. Nothing very big, but we caught many. We caught them everywhere, too. The first one was on a shallow crankbait over 80' trolling for trout. We got one trout over very deep water and had a couple other hits. We got more trout in 10-25'. The biggest I estimate was 12#; no picture, unfortunately. In one lunch spot, I got the grand slam all from shore. I got 3 trout (all between 5-7#), a walleye and a couple bass on a small tube jig. Got the pike on a kastmaster. We did a day trip from Iron to Roland. Mostly Roland was slow, but the fish went absolutely nuts for about 45 minutes. We had trout hitting or chasing every cast, except when we caught a bass. The trout were mostly short-striking; we only landed two. Still, it was a hoot. We gave up our lunch spot to Stu Osthoff and his party. They needed a place to camp on McAree. The bass and walleye fishing from that spot was crazy good. |
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plander |
Base of Rebecca Falls on McAree for Walleye. Base of Curtain Falls and various bays close by on Iron Lake. On Crooked, the bays on the north shore between Curtain Falls and the Western portage into Argo - good for all three fish (W/N/SMB). Roland Lake for Lake Trout. Siobahn River for Smallmouth - end closest to Roland. Argo - Lake Trout - in particular, along the gravel wall to the north of the entrance to the Siobahn heading up towards the Darky portage. Darky for Walleye and Lake Trout. Ballard is great for Largemouth. I've not had good luck on Pond but I heard others say its ok for Lake Trout. --------- The area East of McAree, West of Argo, and North of Crooked was significantly burned in Sept/Oct 2021 -- all the way up to Darky and Wicksteed. Not sure what that says for all those smaller lakes in the area. Fishing should be fine but the campsites may be rough. |
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plander |
rpike: "Thanks, plander! Looks like an amur pike in your profile pic" yep |
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MichiganMan |
rpike: "plander: "rpike: "Thanks, plander! Looks like an amur pike in your profile pic" Yes please! |
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