A Windy Mudro Loop
by tashit
The alarm went off at 7 again and we were out of the tent by 8. Another delicious Good to Go granola breakfast was on the menu. We hit the water at 9:30. The barrel of Gun, Bullet, and Moosecamp were all very pretty. Bullet may have been my favorite lake of the trip.
Shortly after shoving off from the portage on Moosecamp we passed a group of 8 heading towards Bullet. It appeared as though they were leaving the eastern site. That is the site I would have hoped for if we left the previous day, and it looks like we wouldn’t have gotten it if we did move so we probably made the right decision. It looked really nice from the water. It was rather windy again, even in the morning.
We arrived on Moosecamp at 10:45 and were on the river at 10:50. We had a quick pullover what we thought was the man made dam. The water level was up so we weren’t really sure what to expect with the dams. We later came to the actual dam. Two mallards scared us when they took off just as we came around a corner in the river. They flew just a bit further down the river and landed. They did the same thing 2 or 3 more times before they finally turned around and went back north. There were a couple more beaver dams we had to pull over. One was really muddy and not much fun.
We hit Fourtown at 12:40. The wind was out of the north so we decided we may as well take advantage and head south, plus have a little shorter paddle on our way out. We checked the site furthest SW (#1112) but it was occupied. We came around the corner and arrived at site 1111 at 1:30. Good to Go Korma was our lunch and it was delicious, as all of the Good to Go’s have been this trip.
We went to look for the abandoned car near the site across the bay around 2:30. We looked for a good 20 or 30 minutes but couldn’t find it. After getting home and looking online it looks like it was further back away from the lake. That site was nicer than it looked from the water but we still liked ours better. Claire’s eyes got really bad from tromping through the woods. We got the tent up and she laid down.
A loud group of 4 men came to the site across the bay with the car around 6 pm. They weren’t overly annoying, just talking a lot louder than they needed to be and we could hear most of what they said. We had Mountain House chili mac for dinner, our favorite.
We decided to fish around 8:45-9:00. Claire caught a smallie on her second cast. I caught 5 walleyes, a couple of them were 17-18”. It was really hard not eating them but it seemed like a big hassle that late at night. We were heading home the next morning and we had most of our stuff already packed up. We only fished until 9:30 or so because the bugs got bad. Claire again got a great fire going with wet wood. It was yet another stellar night. It seemed like the sun just didn’t want to completely set. We enjoyed the fire, the weather, and each other’s company until almost 11.
~Gun Lake, Bullet Lake, Moosecamp Lake, Fourtown Lake