The lake trout fishing pretty much makes up for the lack of walleyes in louisa.
I can't help you with the portage to Glacier but if you are base camping it would certainly be something you could entertain your group with.

I was on Louisa in '08 for 3 days. In that time the fishing ranged from dismal to decent and same for the weather. We paddled in from Agnes on an almost mirror flat lake. That night a nice storm blew in and the lake was kicking. I'll add that during the three days we stayed there we didn't see a soul. We didn't catch any walleye, but then again we were rigged for lakers the whole time. I too was there in late august early sept. If you can fish deep (I caught fish in over 140' of water, almost on the bottom) you'll be into them.

I've been on Louisa twice, and would love to go back again.  It's always nice to get out of the lower Agnes bottleneck onto a less popular route.  I'm recalling that the campsites we saw were very exposed, but we only saw a couple.

If you enjoy smaller lakes and creeks, a day trip to Glacier would be worth it.  I'm also unaware of a long portage, but have taken the several portages to get there.

As to wind, I guess you can get it anywhere and it can be dicey on any large lake.  Agnes gets the reputation mainly because of the length the wind/waves can travel up or down the lake with minimal obstruction added to the general populairty of the lake.  The high cliffs also seem to funnel the wind.

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This description by Denton Doc was dead-on accurate. We recently were in the neighborhood and also took a day trip to Glacier. "Beautiful chain of lakes" indeed. Downright gorgeous. I love paddling through the little beaver areas, gently nudging aside weeds and feeling the stillness.

Connecting streams, especially from Fauquier to Rod among the prettiest I've seen. I wanted to set down the canoe and stay awhile.

A few landings and some step-ups along the portages a little tricky, but otherwise easy.

When we finally got to Glacier, the air was heavy with mist, making it seem like we'd entered another dimension. Wish we'd brought our gear and stayed for a day. (And did I say we saw nary a soul the whole day? Actually, we didn't see anybody from Saturday afternoon until Thursday evening, and even then it was just a far-off canoe.)

-- kypaddler

Oh, and my newer M maps no longer show the Gamp-to-Glacier portages either.

MossBack wrote on Nov 6^th, 2010 at 2:51am:

I did that the other direction last year with the original 60+ year old parts. (Of course, that was the back end of a trip that started up the Falls Chain and up to McKenzie then back to McEwen (using the long portage in) the down the Glacier-Louisa route.  By the time I hit those last portages, the knees were pretty much well oiled.)

dd