Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

Mudro to Friday Bay and Back Again
by GutRooster

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/04/2014
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (restricted--no camping on Horse Lake) (EP 22)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 9
Day 4 of 5
Saturday, June 07, 2014 Our plan was to stay on Moosecamp another day. All members of our group slept in. We didn’t hit the lake until about 10:30. My canoe returned to the entrance into Moosecamp from Bullet Lake. Here there was a fair amount of current entering the lake via some beaver work. My fiancé through her popper into the mouth and was rewarded with an 18” smallmouth. After some pictures and a release she casted again and hooked up with a 19” smallmouth. More pictures and another release followed by another smallmouth 18.5”. Here I asked her to stop so I could tie something on and get in on the action. A few casts with a tube jig rewarded me with a 17” and 18” bass before she finished with another 17 incher. What a great half hour of fishing that was. All bass returned to the lake, we went back to camp for a nap and some Euchre with our campmates. That night we returned to our walleye honey-hole and caught a few more, we returned them all to the lake for the next campers. That night the lake was wonderfully still and we enjoyed the calls of owls and loons along with a campfire and maybe just a little whiskey.