Quetico Fishing
Barbless, Non-Organic, Non-toxic: It's the law for 2008! Help preserve the waters and protect the Quetico Park fishery!

Quetico Rules, Regs and Requirements

1. To enter and camp in Quetico Park remotely, via canoe from Minnesota: You'll need a Remote Area Border Crossing Permit from Canadian Customs AND a Quetico Park permit from the Canadian Park Service: Get necessary forms and phone numbers HERE

To actually fish in Quetico Park, you need a fishing license. Contact the Ministry of Natural Resources Here to get a fishing license Details Here...

Quetico Park Camping Permit Costs listed here Details Here...

Zone 5 Map Here

CANPASS .pdf Here

 

Going Barbless and Non-organic in the Quetico Park

Sure, taking the barbs off your hooks can be a pain, but there are some advantages in doing so, especially if you are catch and release fishing. In some cases you can just crimp the barb over with a pair of pliers, but the other option would be to replace your hooks on your favorite lures with barbless hooks. These are not always easy to find but we have them available. Replacing your barbed hooks makes for a stronger hook because today's super-sharp, hardened hooks sometimes crack off when crimping with pliers. You and also grind them off but ever hook maker of modern hooks says that grinding anything will cause corrosion of the point by removing the finish. You end up with rusty hooks in your tackle box fairly quickly and sticking yourself with a rusty barbless hook could have more ramification down the road for you personally. See Here for more details on barbless hooks

NEW! Barbless Willy Lures for casting and trolling! Pro Diamond Casting Spoons, Trolling Spoons, ALL barbless and ready for action! Click Here

 

Want to know more about Quetico Park? Buy this excellent guide with canoe routes and historical details. It's a bit of a quirky read with beautiful color photos and details that you probably would not find in other "guides". A useful and entertaining read plus the author and many others in the book actually use excellent kevlar canoes as well! Very few of those wussy, Brand X, kevlar canoes pictured in this book. It's gotta be good! 192 pages.

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Quetico Provincial Park of Canada
Quetico Park includes over 2,000 unofficial, unimproved wilderness campsites spread throughout more than 600 lakes. The park itself is a beautiful, seemingly neverending network of relatively undisturbed lakes and connecting portages. It's very rugged and noted for spectacular fishing for smallmouth bass, walleyes, lake trout, and northern pike. There are some lakes in the Quetico Park that offer a fabulous fishing adventure but they are not easy to access. Quetico Park is permitted canoe access only and canoeists are required to have permit reservations to enter. Canoe campers may only enter the Quetico via six Ranger Stations which serve 21 specific entry points. It is possible to drive to three of these Ranger Stations: Dawson Trail, Atikokan, Lac La Croix. One must portage and paddle to Beaverhouse, and paddle or take a tow from an outfitter to Cache Bay or Prairie Portage. Drive-in camping is available only at the Dawson Trail campground; yurt camping is also available in this campground.

 

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