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Voyage of the Sasquatch (Seagull-South Arm Knife Lake)
by smalltown

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/21/2010
Entry & Exit Point: Seagull Lake (EP 54)
Number of Days: 7
Group Size: 2
Day 5 of 7
Friday, June 25, 2010 Fishing Day at South Arm I slept in until 9 and Brad until 9:30 because we were pretty tired. It was a cool and cloudy morning. When I got up I started the fire and decided to go for a cliff jump and clean up. Brrr was it cold but it was very refreshing. We ate our breakfast of oatmeal and granola bars. thenit started to rain so we retreated inside our tent again for a couple hours so I read my Bible and Brad got some more sleep. When it was done raining we paddled over to the bay across the lake. We caught 3 nice sized walleyes right away where that one had snapped brad's line earlier. We kept fishing and it started to rain on us again. We fished on for the next hour and caught 4 smallies, 1 more walleye, and a northern. We then headed back to camp and decided to climb up the cliff near our camp to take pictures and see the view. It was awesome once again; the view was breath taking. But I did fall and slide a few feet on the way down and bloodied up my knee and hand. We then went back to camp and hug everything out to dry and went to jig around the islands one last time only this time with no leeches because we wanted to save the last few for slip bobber fishing later that night. But to no avail. We fished for an hour or two but only had a few bites. Brad and me then went back to camp and he made supper while I started fishing. We had about 10 leeches left so we would be done when those ran out. In two hours 7 walleyes and 13 smallmouth. We tried some pumpkinseed gulp leeches but they didn't yield any bites even. (But supposedly they out fish live bait) No Way! But whatever. We then ate our supper of fish fry and some tasty wild rice. Then bed at 11.