Jasper Creek Guide Service, Inc. offers completely outfitted and guided fishing trips, canoe trips, and camping trips into the BWCAW, BWCA, Quetico Park, Quetico/ Superior wilderness. These canoe trips take place in Minnesota and Canada waters. Fishing is for Smallmouth Bass, Walleyes, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Crappies, and Largemouth Bass. Camping and canoe trips that are offered include Base Camps, Drop Camps, Father & Son Trips, Autumn Trip Packages, Bass Blitz,Cast & Cruise Trips, Wilderness Day Trips. Jasper Creek guide Service, Inc. provides lodging accommodations and motel accommodations at A Stay Inn Ely.

Cast & Cruise

Originally designed to meet  the Fly Fisherman's needs, now the Cast & Cruise is a  favorite with many of Jasper Creek's clients. This trip option allows you maximum time on the water; right where you want to be and need to be to enjoy the superb Smallmouth Bass angling found here in the BWCA/ Quetico country!

The itinerary- We'll leave our base either  via Jasper Creek's reliable towboat service or with a vehicle shuttle and get dropped off miles away at a select wilderness entry point. Depending on your pre-determined trip plans, we'll portage and paddle to a beautiful campsite and then head out fishing as soon as a tight camp is set. A hearty meal, expertly prepared over an open campfire, awaits you and the gang as the sun begins its daily slide to the west. Two favorite pastimes in the evening are to cast top water lures against shadowy shorelines anticipating the fury of a smallmouth bass, or reminiscing the day's events over a crackling fire while overlooking a picture perfect wilderness view as it fades into the dusk. The next morning finds us up early. A pot of coffee will be perking its two note melody over a smoky spruce campfire as we break camp. A quick, but hearty breakfast is prepared and eaten as anticipation builds for the day's angling action. Canoes are boarded and the fun begins!  We'll fish down the timbered shorelines, cast the boulder fields, jig and rig hidden reefs, slip bobber weed lines, troll over deep holes, and proceed to catch FISH! By early afternoon, we'll all begin to feel a little weary and the need to stretch our backs. We  notice our hunger pangs lasting through the excitement of lippin' yet another red-eyed smallie. It is time for our lunch break  - that traditional Northwoods Shorelunch!  Often we choose to pitch the evening camp right there during lunch break. Sometimes we go in search of more fishing action and pitch our camp further down the lake at yet another picture perfect campsite. It's your trip and we go at a pace that is comfortable for everyone.

The best time to reserve a "Cast & Cruise" Trip option is from late May through early July. The basic trip is reserved for six days (five nights) with superb fishing action, beautiful scenery, great tasting food, and comfortable camps. Typically, we'll exit at another predetermined point by mid afternoon on the sixth day (depending on trip length). There is usually a "lay over day" within those six days. Again, this depends on your trip itinerary. You'll notice that your thumb is sand papered from lippin' smallies when  the last  Duluth pack drops from your shoulders on to the dock back at Jasper Creek's landing That's  the pack full of the countless memories that will return home with you. Those memories will keep you dreaming of the Quetico-Superior!