Monday, May 25, 2009 (heading home)
Based on the strong encouragement of cowdoc and izzy, we were not paddling out today. We were getting a tow at 1pm. That turned out to be a great decision…
We had breakfast (Cache lake’s bacon hash brown scramble, very good) and went out fishing. We tried a few spots and didn’t catch much. I was still hoping for a walleye to complete my BW slam but it was not to be…
We started to pack up camp around 10am. At 11am, we pushed off towards Red Rock Bay. We trolled and had a leisurely paddle. The wind was blowing pretty hard but it was behind us. We mostly just steered the canoe.
When we got to the creek between Red Rock Lake and Red Rock Bay, we saw 2 guys fishing the creek. We paddled through and talked for a second. While we were talking, they caught a nice ~35” northern almost right below our canoe. They were using a dead cisco/smelt on a bobber.
We beached the canoe on the far shore and relaxed while we waited for the tow boat. The boat arrived around 1:00. We loaded the boat and headed towards Seagull. On the big water of Saganaga, the strong SE wind was really blowing. The whitecaps were pretty impressive. (My original plan was to paddle out Seagull today. With the strong wind, that would not have been possible. Thanks again to cowdoc and izzy.)
We got back to Seagull, showered, bought some t-shirts and headed home.
I got a short nap on the way to my dad’s house. I dropped him off around 9:30. I got home around 2:30am. Just enough time to grab a nap before heading to work on Tuesday morning…