Friday, September 07, 2018 Another great night last night, still amazed on how peaceful it is up here. I am truly going to miss this place, but I will say I am looking forward to a comfy bed, a hot shower, and not having to lug around everything on our backs. My wife made a comment that I was getting a bit ripe so decided that despite the fact that it was below 50 this morning it was time to jump in the lake and clean up. It is cold but very refreshing. While we are eating our breakfast this bird lands real close to us and he didn't really look to afraid of us, we found out later it was a Canadian Jay. I put some eggs in my hand and held it out and sure enough he came and ate right out of my hand.

We cleaned up camp and packed our day pack end headed out for our adventure. Today's goal, catch enough fish for a fish fry. It was still fairly early so was hoping we might come across a moose on our way to the Vista portage, it is prime habitat for them but with no luck. It is just a perfect day for exploring, not a cloud in the sky and next to no wind. We were considering do a small loop through some other lakes but we checked out the portage and it just looked like it was going to be too tough to get into the next lake and we were looking for it to be a little more relaxing for the day. So we casted the shorelines looking for some smallmouth and got nothing. After fishing for a couple hours with crankbaits we came to a spot that we had caught some walleyes a couple years prior so I decided to give something a try. I put on a fluke with a bullet head jig and within the first couple of casts I had a smallmouth. A couple casts later I hooked into a walleye but lost it. I quickly changed my wife to the same thing and for the next hour we caught walleye like crazy. Ended up keeping 5 for a meal. 

We then decided to go take the fish to a rock in the middle of the lake to clean the fish and have some lunch. Today was cheese, sausage, and crackers for lunch. My wife made lunch while I cleaned fish. Vista was actually pretty busy today, we wanted to have lunch at our campsite from a couple years ago but there were people there. Bellies full and fish cleaned we headed back to Horseshoe for an afternoon of chilin and enjoying our last day in the BWCA.

We actually used the leech locker to keep our fillets cool until supper time which worked out well. All I can say is there is nothing like having a fresh walleye in the BWCA, best meal of the trip. We spent the rest of the night just cleaning up camp and packing away a few things we didn't need anymore and relishing the last gorgeous night in this amazing place.