Thursday, June 24, 2010 Day trip to Eddy Falls and Toe Lake I woke to some bright sunshine finally at around 7 and Brad was already up. We ate our oatmeal, tidyed up camp, a bit and got ready to leave for the day. We paddled to the portage to Eddy to go see the waterfall. We were worried about "leaving a trace" but we found two very well worn trails that went right to the falls. We climbed around and took some pictures then decided to head out towards Toe Lake. We fished the shoreline toward the portage a short ways away but caught nothing. We had a little trouble finding the portage because it was small and little used but it was just a short 5 rod thing. Brad and me don't fish for Northerns ever but we finally decided to try it for once. (We had heard there were some big Smallmouth and Largemouth in Toe lake but it was hard to keep the pike off your line long enough.) So we had finally accepted catching some pike. But it was all for naught because we didn't catch a thing in an hour or so of fishing. We tried everything from rapalas to jigs to spinners and even spoons but nothing. We then went to the campsite to eat lunch. Behind the camp was a big rock hill so we decided we'd climb it and eat lunch at the top. It was a little tricky getting up but the view was incredible! We then did the portage out of Toe Lake and arrived at camp a little after 1 pretty dejected because we didn't catch anything. Back at camp Brad decided to take a nap and I decided to sit by the lake in the shade and read my Bible and journal. I also decided to cast out a slip bobber just for the heck of it. Much to my suprise I started getting bites within a couple minutes of casting it out. I had never used slip bobbers before and had a great next couple of hours catching fish like crazy. Brad heard me catching fish so he came out too. The fish just kept on biting. By 5:00 we had caught 17 smallmouth and 9 walleye. This was new to me I had never caught walleyes that early in the day before. There was even quite a bit of size to the fish! At 5 we noticed we were running low on leeches so we decided to save the rest for the next couple days. So sadly we were done fishing with leeches for the day. ( next time I'm bringing like 5 lbs. of leeches so we don't run out. I've heard that a half pound should be 8-9 dozen so we definitely got shorted).Then at like 7 we ate our supper of all you can eat fish and stuffing. After supper we cleaned up camp and soon it was dark. we were sitting at camp and heard some rattling over by our food. We shined over there and saw a mouse scamper away. The fish were surfacing around camp so I decided to cast a hula popper around and brad went to sleep. In a half hour I had caught 5 smallies. One being the biggest of the trip so far at 20". Then I decided to head to bad because it was nearing midnight. Lakes traveled: South Arm Knife , Toe