Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Today we decided to paddle over to the southwest side of the lake to search for raspberries (Kyliah loves to pick berries). We found that the island campsite that is closest to the portages to Hope Lake was one large raspberry patch.

While Kyliah picked I decided the landing area looked like a great place for Samllies and put on a top water popper. After the 5th cast or so a Smallie flew out of the water smashing the lure. My kids jaws all dropped seeing the action. Unfortunately for me he went right into the lily pads before I could keep him away, tangled up the line and got away along with my lure. [paragraph break]

That night we listened to the weather radio which said that Friday and Saturday were likely to be wet. We had planned to move on Friday to make coming out Saturday not as long of a paddle, but decided to make the move tomorrow instead to avoid moving in the rain.