The Gimp of 01 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2014 at 7:16pm:

went back and read the original post a few times; seems the big problem is being tied into a certain pickup date / time? if i'm understanding this correctly; why not take a sat phone (yes i can hear the cringes and moans) and arrange a several day window with the outfitter picking you up? once you're a day away make the call; see when they can get you. seems it would give the desired latitude in departure dates.

I agree and did exactly that with a group of five this June in WCPP. We were using the newly opened Minjim route from Royd Lake to Douglas Lake. The fishermen were going to cry if we did not take a layover day for the Walleyes on Joey Lake. It was agreed to take the day off and suffer a little to make up for the lost time. The fishing was great but the pay-back more than we could handle. When it became obvious that meeting our scheduled pick-up time and place meant a three day death march  :'( I called a meeting. It was agreed that getting back home at 10:00am instead of 3:00am was OK so I called Red Lake outfitters. We changed out pick-up spot and the time from morning to afternoon. We then went back to having fun.  :)