This is to your strong advantage as there are many portages, half as long, that are much tougher to get across due to terrain changes along the way. Van trips required at start and end. Fishing is great for smallmouth bass on the border lakes of Iron and Crooked. Several beautiful waterfalls lie along the route, along with Indian pictographs on cliff faces. This fantastic walleye lake is seldom fished due to the difficult route to reach it.
Parties then can continue on to Iron Lake and Crooked Lake for smallmouth bass.
We don t recommend returning to the starting location due to the difficulty of the route. A beautiful lake reached by an initial 2 mile portage. We think this one is better left to those people trying to reserving their permit after everything else is taken. Portaging into Horse or Fourtown Lake can find the base camping unit at their campsite by noon. For those wanting to continue, a chain of small lakes to the northwest leads to quiet walleye and northern fishing.