Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Alpine-South Arm Knife Lake Woke up at 6 to a very cloudy and gray day. I was worried it was going to rain on us. We ate our breakfast of oatmeal, packed up camp and were on the move by 8. Suprisingly the rain held of on us the whole way to the South Arm of Knife Lake. The sun even peeked out for the latter part of the day. We stopped at ate lunch at a campsite on Ogishcumuncie and watched a group take around 45 minutes to do a 25 rod portage.It was ridicoulous. We ate our lunch of pb and j tortillas, beef sticks, and gorp quickly and were soon ready. We covered the last lakes and portages quickly and arrived at our campsite in the Northeastern bay of South Arm of Knife Lake at 2:30. Our campsite was the 2nd one from the top towards Hanson Lake. We set up camp and I shimmied up a tree to hang the bear rope up nice and high. The weather had turned sunny and warm so we decided to do some cliff jumping to refresh ourselves. That was alot of fun and felt great! Then at about 4ish we fished around camp catching a few small mouth and a northern pike in about an hour. We then made supper of instant mashed potatoes and ham. After supper the wind had picked up so we decided to go across the way to fish a more sheltered bay. Within minutes Brad hooks a big fish and yells at me to grab the net. He fights it for a few seconds and we could both tell it was big but then it took a big run and snapped the line. Brad wasn't too happy to say the least. We fished around the edges catching multiple smallies but not much size to them with the biggest being 16". We were on our way out when I finally hook a good fish I feel him tug and the fight was on. I had reeled him in about half way when he took a run at the surface and jumped several feet out of the water and we had a great view of a 20+ Smallie but that jump allowed him to get off my lure and I was left crushed. We then exited the bay and kept fishing shoreline until dark catching two more smallies and two 16" walleyes. We went to bed soon after. Lakes traveled: Alpine, Jasper, Kingfisher, Ogishcumuncie, Annie, Jenny, Eddy, and South Arm Knife.