What To Bring

Due to the unique location of Garden Island, it is necessary for your equipment to be handled several times during the trip to the island from Mowatt Landing. To keep your gear to a minimum we supply landing nets, bait containers, anchors, life jackets, cooking equipment for shore lunches, bedding, swivel seats in the boats, fish finders, and many other items. We also have a number of deep cycle batteries for use with your own trolling motors or other equipment at $15.00 per week (we don't rent trolling motors). We recommend you reserve one of our batteries rather than lugging yours all the way up here.

Note From WebGuy: This past season I brought along my 100ah lithium battery and lithium charger for use with my Minn Kota 40 pound thrust transom mount electric motor. While fishing I use my electric motor constantly on low and medium settings all day for 11 to 12 hours. My lithium battery lasted for two full days only dropping from 13.4 volts to 13.1 volts. Since it only weighs 21 pounds, I could take it into the cabin every other night to recharge which only took three hours. I wanted to pass this information along to our guests because this system worked perfectly for me. Keep in mind that if you buy a lithium battery you must also bring along a lithium charger because a standard lead acid battery charger can and probably will damage a lithium battery. This battery and charger combination cost me approximately $230 US on Amazon. I don't want anyone to think I make a commission for linking to Amazon so I didn't add links to the battery, charger, battery box and gauges here but if you want links to these products that I purchased from Amazon you can send me your email address through the contact form on the website's Contact Page and I'll be glad to send them to you.

Please pack your gear so that it can be handled easily. Our repeat guests use sturdy boxes, suit cases and gunny sacks for their gear. Please pack small items in containers. PLEASE USE ROD CASES (cardboard tubes from a carpet store work). If you bring your own beverages, do not bring beer in glass bottles (cans ONLY please). Avoid bringing glass bottles (cans or plastic bottles ONLY please).