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Agnes - LLC
by fcrugbyhooker

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/08/2016
Entry & Exit Point: Moose/Portage River (north) (EP 16)
Number of Days: 11
Group Size: 2
Day 9 of 11
Thursday, June 16, 2016

I realize that my coffee supply is becoming limited and the end is in sight. Bummer because there is still much to explore. We decide to go to Kelsey Lake and try for some pike. I hook a beauty in Never Fail on the way and get it up to the canoe. I take the folding frabill and try to land it but it nowhere near fits half of the fish in it. In my attempt I knock the rapala out and it swims away. No regrets as it was going back but a picture with the 35+ pike would have been nice, oh well. We get into Kelsey on the hot summer day and what a blast! 30 plus healthy pike between 22 and 28 inches. At times literally one after another, and each one a great fight. Both our wrists are sore and we keep one for jambalaya night. I would highly recommend this little lake for fun. They inhaled our spoons and spinners and I am betting there are some nice panfish in there too, but we stayed on the northerns. We decide we will probly head out Saturday Morning so we enjoy another beautiful sunset and night on our site. Huge fires on nights like these from all the beaver wood washed ashore we found. Another awesome recommendation I got from BWJ and Stu. I'll never do it any other way.