Name: Kim Overholt
Hometown: Holmen WI
Arrival Date: 25 Jul 2014
Departure Date: 2 Aug 2014
Coming From/Via: Houghton, Ranger III
Itinerary: RHL, day trips by boat
Notes/Other: Hubby and I are treating my parents to a weeklong stay in a Housekeeping cabin. We're bringing our 18"boat for fishing and ...

Mike says the lakers were caught between 25-40' in 30-80' of water. They used a deep six and a double deep six diver with a j-plug (blue and silver and wonderbread). It only took 2 hours of trolling to supper.

Fish: thanks to advice from a person at Rock Harbor we learned that the fish were quite shallow due to the gale action the week before and very active. We didn't have to worry about trying to get deep with out downriggers. We caught three very nice size lakers at McCargo Cove area. We ate two and ...

8/14 - 8/22, Via Houghton / Ranger III

Final Itinerary was:
1st night- cabin @ Rock Harbor Lodge, visited with the mgr Kim with whom we worked there 27 yrs. ago
2nd night - McCargo Cove. (We wanted Birch Is. but it was taken.)
3rd - 4th night - Belle Isle (Favorite!)
5th night - Chippewa Harbor
6th ...

How timely!! I'll have Mike read it before we leave today and add a lemon to the grocery list!!

Kim

OMIGOSH!!!!! We're on our way!!!!! Looks like fine weather for the trip!!!! Report to be posted on the 24th!!

Kim

Sorry for all the exclamation points!!!

Intersesting thread given that I choose explore ISRO by boat and ironic because I have eight Boundary Waters Wilderness Area trips under my belt.

"Well I was born in the sign of water. And it is there that I feel my best."
Little River Band

Thanks Don. I'm positive I can't talk hubs out of trying but hey it's the journey not the destination. He once saw a 'log' move move in McCargoe Cove and has never forgetten that pike. Said it was longer than he was tall. (Uh, ok dear.) In any case fishing for nortens is fun!

Keeweenaw - Thanks for the additional information. Tents are already on the list. Great suggestion about pulling up on shore. I'll make sure we have a longer hank of rope along.

Don - Our boat is not equipped to handle a large load such as "cots and other comforts of home" in addition to the four ...

I'm having a really hard time finding information about fishing the Lady herself. We'll be boating and would like to do some trolling. Hubby did plenty of that when we worked there but it was by the small boats that RHL rents and early in the summer when the trout weren't deep. He has the reefs ...

Name: Kim Overholt
Email: kimmers@charter.net
Hometown: Holmen, WI
Arrival Date: 8/14
Departure Date: 8/22
Coming From/Via: Houghton / Ranger III
Itinerary:
1st night- Sitting on the fence on this one. We'd like to make Tookers or Caribou. (Unless we hear it's unlikely there's a spot then maybe ...

Thanks for posting. Those were fun reads. Especiallylike the part about sining to moose. lol

Uh, whoa. :shock: How far away were you the previous night? Getting from say Tookers Island to Chippewa Harbor by 8 AM would be quite a push. It's 19 miles! Off the top of my head I don't know how early we'd have to leave because I'm not sure how fast our boat goes. I'll have to ask hubby. Add ...

John,

Forgot to say that yes we have both GPS and VHF.

We've been plugging along gathering info. Mike just marked up the chart with the no wake zones since we're unsure if they are marked with bouys. We're also aware of the NA campgrounds and we've got the table of campground info. I've been ...

Thanks for bringing this up. It took me several tries as well last week. I was about to call my daughter in when I finally got it. I just figured it was my 'old' eyes as well.