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Father/Son super grand slam fishing trip
by papszoo

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/11/2013
Entry Point: Quetico
Exit Point: Quetico  
Number of Days: 9
Group Size: 2
Day 6 of 9
Sunday, June 16, 2013 We woke up to a nice sunny day and planned to backtrack to Argo fishing all the way. We packed a lunch and portaged into the Siobhan "pond". It was incredible fishing with doubles on most of the time. The bass werent very large but they were virtually everywhere and eager biters. It was like fishing in a giant aquarium. We made a loon friend who followed us around the whole lake. We then paddled up the Siobhan river and the fishing was only slightly less amazing. At one point in the river, we caught a few walleyes making me wish I brought my fish fry stuff. Towards lunchtime, we pulled off on a large outcropping and ate lunch. Our sandwich meat looked like it was not going to last much longer so we made jumbos. Andrews sandwich was so large it required him to disarticulate his jaw; but he was successful at getting it down. I estimated it was a 14000 calorie sandwich. We could see Argo lake from our vantage point. We went swimming if you could call a 20 millisecond dip that. The surface temp was 68-but it was minus 40 an inch below. We then paddled to Argo. The water has a a blue green look that reminds me a little of glacial till rivers in the Rockies. We fished along the north shore for awhile; didnt get any bites and headed back down river to our camp. After a pitstop, we headed to the south end of Roland where the bass were beating up eachother to get to our offerings. I used a Zulu and my son a topwater but I think we would have caught fish if we used a rock for bait. We then trolled up and down Roland and I caught my second laker of the trip as the sun was getting low. The weather was perfect. I told my son that in this life you will occasionally be granted a "perfect" day; a day when even the most demanding of individuals can't find anything to complain about. Such was our day on Roland.