Friday, September 05, 2008 I am up at 6 AM and boil water for coffee. It’s a beautiful morning and the water is calm. I decide to tie on a top water lure and cast for a bit. As I head toward the lake, Jamie comes out of the tent. She sees my first cast hit the water and get engulfed by a 2 lb. bass. I catch 2 bass on my first 3 casts. Jamie gets her rod and joins me. We fish for about an hour and catch a few more bass. I miss a nice bass that may have been in the 3 lb range. We are in no hurry today. We will make the short trip to Agnes and stay there for the night. We have coffee and Jamie pumps water for Gatorade while I start taking down the tent. We have oatmeal for breakfast and by the time we clean up and pack, it’s 10AM. We paddle towards Boulder Bay and stop to fish a few spots where we mark fish on the depth finder. At each location we catch a few fish, a mix of walleye and crappie. The portages into the Boulder River and Agnes are uneventful. At the end of the portage to Agnes, it starts to drizzle and we break out the raingear. Again, we fish jigs and leeches wherever we mark fish. We catch more crappie and walleye. I would guess that while traveling today we have caught a dozen walleye and 6 or 7 crappie. The site we’d like sits at the SW end of Agnes on the last point. It is occupied when we get there, so we wind up taking the campsite immediately north of the entrance to the Moose River. Not a great site, but it is close to our exit point from Agnes. There is an adequate landing for our canoe, a decent fire pit and a woeful tent pad. It takes me 15 minutes just to decide where I should place the tent and in what orientation. I finally realize that there is no good way, it is more a question of which way we ‘d like to slant while we sleep. We decide to sleep with our heads “uphill”. We eat a late lunch and go out to fish the nearby point. The occupants had been fishing the south side of the point, but move to the east side as we approach. This is a good size lake and we don’t want to crowd them, but we only have a couple hours to fish and don’t want to spend most of it paddling. We eventually find a spot near further north. We paddle a bit until we mark fish. We are in 22 feet of water. We drop anchor and then our jigs. In two hours we catch 16 to 18 walleye and 6 crappie. None of the walleye are over 15”, but the crappie are all very decent fish. We are not cooking this night, so all of the fish are released. We return to camp and pack all of our fishing gear. We have decided to leave early in the morning rather than fish. It is our hope to see more wildlife if we leave early, possibly even a moose and we are willing to give up a morning of fishing toward that end. We cannot find an adequate spot to hang our food pack, so we leave it in plain sight with our cookgear on top of it. We are pretty much ready to go for the morning. A traveling breakfast and lunch are near the top of the food pack and our nalgene bottles are full. We turn in by 9PM and read by flashlight until we fall asleep.