Wednesday, June 04, 2008 We awoke today to another very windy day. The previous night we had decided to take a different way back out, we were going to go through carp birch and sucker lakes so that we had shorter portages and more paddeling. Although we wanted to stay one more day we decided to use the strong wind and head out a day early. It felt like we had just gotten there and already we were saying goodbye, i felt like i could have stayed there forever.. We cruised through knife lake and made it through the first portage where a stream flowed out of knife, We stopped and fished below it for a while, after few bites and one smallmouth later we decided to press on. We continued on portaging alongside small rapids until we got to birch lake. We stopped and had some jerky and took a quick rest, two guys from missouri were fishing where the rapids poured out and said they were having a field day catching smallies with 2 over 20 inches! They didnt catch one while we were there so we had our doubts but as we paddled out and crossed over some sunken trees we couldnt believe the size and how many bass we saw, we tried for a little while with no luck so we pressed on as the weather was starting to turn for the worse and wanted to get to ensign today. Just as it began to drizzle we portaged into ensign and raced for the closest island where we found an empty campsite and quickly set up. We relaxed in the tent and waited out the rain, when it finally stopped it was already dinner time so we threw some stuff together and had a quick meal. We fished from shore with lighted bobbers and caught some small walleyes before we went to bed.