Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

Birch Lake to Knife and back through Vera Lake to Ensign
by spankatolla

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 05/22/2008
Entry & Exit Point: Moose Lake (EP 25)
Number of Days: 8
Group Size: 3
Day 7 of 8
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - Woke up from another cold night (below 30 degrees, 28 I believe). We are getting good at surviving, just enclose ourselves in our sleeping bag and dress in warm cloths. Went fishing around 9. Trolling, I caught nice 2 foot northern, which we kept for lunch. Jake had a nice 4lb. walleye up to the canoe and lost him. Manny had numerous bites with no luck (tough job guiding canoe and fishing at same time). Came back to camp and cooked our first shore lunch. Yummy!!! Laid down after that, Manny took the canoe to do some fly fishing. No Luck for Manny or us. Got up, took shower. Too windy to fish, decided to take a 3 hour trip to Cattyman Falls. Through two lakes and two portages and we were there, beautiful. Came back to camp and decided to fish from shore. BINGO!!!! Everyone caught walleyes. The biggest was 22” and 3 lbs 2 oz. Ended up cleaning and keeping 6. Had a huge supper. Went to bed around 1AM, warming up, I think it is only going down to 38 tonight.