TRAIL'S END ULTIMATE "WHAT TO PACK LIST"

What We Provide:

• Clean Comfortable Cabins with kitchens and bathrooms
• Daily Hot Breakfast
• Daily Shore Lunch Kit (except the fish...)
• Towels
• Bed Linens
• Blankets
• Pillows
• Boats and motors if needed - 2 or 3 People Per
• Boat Seats - Padded Swivel
• Floatation Cushions
• Rubber Nets
• Minnow Buckets
• Sell (Leeches & Crawlers)
• Fish Cleaning Shack & Wrap
• Freezer for Fish Storage
• Map of Surrounding Lakes
• Gas BBQs
• Picnic Tables
• Plenty of Comfortable Chairs
• Bonfire Nightly
• Ice

What You Should Bring:

• Photo ID AND Passport for border crossing
• Fishing Gear (See below)
• Portable Depth Finder
• Cooler For Your Boat
• Clothes: jeans/khakis, shorts, short/long sleeved shirts, extra socks, jacket & sweatshirt
• Early Season: warm jacket, wool socks, hat & gloves
• Appropriate Foot Wear: hiking boots/rubber boots/tennis shoes
• Windbreaker Jacket
• Rain Gear
• Cap
• Personal Toiletries
• Personal Medication
• Sunglasses
• Sunscreen & Bug Spray
• Flashlight
• Camera
• Snacks
• Non-Alcoholic Beverages
• Alcoholic Beverages
• Food Needed For Nightly Dinners (Housekeeping Only)
• Walkie Talkies (Optional)
• Portable GPS (Optional)

Trail's End Fishing Gear Suggestions.....

• 2 - 3 Fishing Poles with Spinning Reels (Bait Casting Reels)
• Tackle Box & Stringers
• Filet Knife
• "Walleye / Bass" Pole with 6 - 8 lb. Test
• "Northern / Lake Trout" Pole with 10 - 12 lb. Test
• 7 Day Fishing License available at lodge

Tackle Suggestions

Walleye

• Jig and Minnow (Leech & Night Crawler)
• Lindy Rigs (Floating & Non-Floating Jigs)
• Spinners

Northern Pike

• Daredevils
• Cleo's
• Any Casting Spoon
• Rapalas

Lake Trout

• 4' - 5' "Deep Diving" Rapalas
• 4' - 5' Rapala DT-10 & DT-16 (Black & Silver DT-10 & 16 for sure in your arsenal) Variety of colors
• Any Rapala - the bigger, the better
• Shallow Diving" & "Deep Diving" (every day is different)
• "Flat Fish" Lure
• "Rattle Trap" Lure

Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass

• Most of the above will also catch Bass
• Plastic Worms
• Spinner Baits
• "Bass" Lures

Live Bait
Available at Trail's End

For the days you plan to fish walleye, plan on using about 2 dozen per person, per day, of the live bait that you prefer (i.e. 10 guys x 2 dozen/day x 2 days equals about 40 dozen minnows, leeches and/or worms needed).

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