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Hello

I will be heading up to Kabetogama in June and was just curious if anyone has any info on the depth of the water behind cutover island?  I have never been on the backside (north side) of the island and I am curious if it is ok to pass between the island and the mainland there?  Just wondering in case we happen to visit the rock gardens or fish around that area if we can go thru there or if it would be better to go around the island to the south?

thanks for any advice!

Posted (edited)

Usually you can troll thru there no problem, unless the water is very low. Stay closer to the Cutover side. Would not run high speed in there though.

Edited by Satchmo
Posted (edited)

If you look at that area (or any area in VNP) in google maps Earth view, you will clearly see the channel thru the area.  The view that is being shown was from early last May when water levels were about 5 feet low.  There are vast areas on the Earth view that are above water, that are not normally ( ie. the island on the west end is actually attached to Cutover on the view by a sand beach that is normally several feet under water).   

If you want to know what the water levels are like, the best place I've found is this:

http://www.lwcb.ca/waterflowdata.html

Click on Namakan Lake.  The pink line is the level at Gold Portage on Kab (also gives kettle falls and crane lake).  

Edited by Xplorer
Posted

Thank you both for your reply's.   One other question I was wondering if anyone could help me with was is there any overflow parking in the Kabetogama visitor center?  On both of my only two other trips to VNP we were able to get a spot to park the truck and trailer right in the main area but it was getting fairly close to full.  Curious if it is full, is there other parking somewhere else right in that area that you can leave the truck and trailer for a few days? Thanks again, I will plan to report how we do when we get back.  We will be heading up there June 2nd.

Posted

My camper sits about 2 blocks west of the Visitors center on the main lake and I'm not aware of any overflow parking in that area. The Ash River visitors center has multiple parking lots.

Posted

I'm going to be camping on cutover in June.  I've never been to the lake and am hoping to land a few a walleyes.  Are they usually in deep water around mid june or do they tay on the shoreline?  Any info would be appreciated.  I looked through some old reports but mostly saw what bait to use.

Posted

In june you will have consistent morning and evening movements toward the shallows, and a deeper bite during mid day. There is also an emerging weed bite the first half of june, and movements toward the reefs in the second half. 

Posted

Agree with Satchmo.  I usually have a tougher time in mid-day since we bobber fish most of the time.  A chop on the water will bring them up shallow in the day, though. 

Posted

Thanks for the info.  I'm looking forward to giving it a good shot.  I'll post the results when I get back.

Posted

Posting results would be nice.  This Kab area does not get a lot of help/posts. 

 

Maybe that is good as it keep the area more "remote" feeling.

Posted

Bill:

 

You are on this site just about as much as I am. 

We are leaving in the morning (got an extra day),can't wait. So like I said earlier--I should be able to tell you where not to fish.

Watch for the green bucket on your deck.

Travel safe!!

Posted

Looking forward to the green bucket!  Nice on the bonus day. 

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