Our last day in the BW was a beautiful sunny day, and we decided to move directly across the portage to Seagull and spend some time fishing there before heading up to our exit. We went directly to the short portage inlet from Alpine to see what it held. There we found 3-6 feet of water, and not much action. Then my son pulled in the big fish of the trip, a good-sized northern that barely fit into our folding net. Not as big as the monster we saw yesterday, but the biggest fish he ever caught.

After he was released, we moved down the river, and caught a couple of smallies along the bank leading out to the bay (Black+Silver XRap and F11). We marked a lot fish in the opening to the bay and took a couple more smallies there. Then we decide to cast up against the rock wall in the SE corner of the bay, which was about 61 degrees, and there and around the first point with a campsite, we caught 12 or more smallies on our favorite black+silver Rapalas again. This, we said, was the kind of fishing we were looking for all week, and it capped off a good trip for smallies.

When it got to be that time, we had our last lunch at campsite #455 on the point looking over the main body of Seagull, then paddled our way across and up to Blankenberg. Got there at 3:40 despite an east wind, and shortly before 7:00 we were at Trail Center for the last fish fry of the trip (all you can eat!).