Saturday, August 9, 2008
Good Morning, Erik you are in the Boundary Waters!! I was up and out of the tent by 5:30 am. I worked to set up our tarp, and make a nice cozy campsite for us. The morning light let me thoroughly start to enjoy our wonderful campsite. We had plenty of space for our huge 6 man tent and room to spare for spreading out our covered tarp area. The campsite was on an island, and when we went down to the beach we had a 270° view of Lac La Croix. The beach was a wonderful rock shelf that looked more like a maintained boat landing than a wilderness campsite. I am rating this campsite 5 stars +.
After everyone was up and fed, we decide that our original plan to move campsites everyday was going to have to wait for another trip. Given that we were pretty exhausted from yesterday’s travel, and the wonderful site that we found, we decided to change our plan to a base camp approach and stay here for two more nights. With that decided, we set out to find some fish!
Next time I go to the Boundary Waters I’ll read more fishing blogs and map notes. We dad and I paddled across much of Lac La Croix and for most of the day caught nothing but the bottom of the lake. We did however find one hot spot. Just north of a tiny “island” that is about .5 mile south west of Warrior Hill we caught a few nice Walleye and a 20” Bass. We paddled hard to get back to camp by 7:00 PM, and again dinner went down smooth, and I was out.