It’s a basic camp, nothing fancy just a down to earth camp geared towards fishing. They meet you at the pickup point in right on time; you load up on the boats and take off for their island. The owners are nice and responsive to questions but also leave you alone to do your own thing. We spent some time fishing on the main Bear Lake during 2008 but much less time in 2009 because most of the action is on the smaller portage lakes.

On one of the small lakes we caught numerous 15-19 inch large mouths on nearly every cast and with every type of lure. Plastic worms, top waters, rat-l-traps, etc. Other lakes were active enough to make it exciting and worthwhile. As Chris said every time you see a beaver lodge you will catch fish. We also did extremely well just off the weed beds near beaver dams.

We caught very few pike but did not make a serious effort on the pike, we were there for bass.
Some lakes have both small and large mouth, others only large mouth. While there we saw lots of beaver, deer, some bear, a moose, also some real ugly aggressive snapping turtles. We did encounter rain in 2009 but it only slightly interfered with our fishing.

Overall it’s a very productive location and allows you to be totally alone and the only person fishing on the smaller lakes. Will we go back? – Yes.