Wednesday, May 27, 2009 All things considered up to this point, even with the lousy unpredictable weather, I've had a great time. The one area of my trip that had been lacking was the fishing. Bingschick was a brook trout lake. A fish I had never caught or even knowingly tried to catch. The only information I had gleaned on how to catch them was from Jeff Murrays' BWCA tips n tricks DVD.

I've seen the movie A River Runs Through It. So I knew enough that my tactics would make any purist roll over in his grave. I had a few crawlers and decided to try that first. It didn't happen right away, but after about a half hour I boated my 1st ever brookie. (nearly 15 inches) When I ran out of the little bait I had I switched to a small minnow rapala. My biggest fish was nearly 17 inches and the smallest being 14. I released all but the 1st one I caught and seasoned him up and baked him up over open coals. Unfortunately this was only my second trip with my new digital camera. Being solo, I was constantly figeting around with it looking at pictures each day. My battery when dead before I caught these fish. Likely story right?!

Anyways this put a fantastic cap to my trip and I decided to head out the next day.

Bingshick Lake