Up and at it again on Day 5, Me and the Captn' headed to the reef to pick up some walleye's and Jon and Nick, slightly behind us, decided to take a detour to the reef and fish around an island to catch a monster pike with his "lucky" 12 inch swim bait. Lucky because he may have caught a 20+ lb laker with it on a lake in the BWCA on it a couple years ago :)

While Uncle Jon was unbeknownst to us fighting and eventually losing his pike of a lifetime on his "lucky" lure (rumor has it that it was close to 40"), me and dad we continuing our fishing conquest on Iron and catching that nights walleye dinner.

We headed back to camp mid-morning for our coffee and pancakes. The wind again was making mid-lake fishing tough so we opted for casting to shore in our canoes for some smallies and pike. I threw on the legendary Zulu rig and it produced but who on this forum would expect any less from that setup. My dad was struggling to keep the canoe controlled in the wind so he was nonchalantly dragging a large tail dancer behind the canoe when he picked up a dandy 4.25 pound smallie.

The wind became to much and we headed back for lunch.

Dad and I decided to rest and climbed into our hammocks and recoup while Jon and Nick headed out to fish some more. These guys like to fish! I like these guys!

After my nap I explored the island and stumbled on a huge patch of blueberries which was a surprise to me since it had been so dry here. I picked as many as I could before I went to camp to prep my mind and body for a tasty meal of walleye and mash potatoes w/pepperoni.

Discussions for the final night of fishing on Iron resulted in the young bucks in one canoe and the seasoned brothers in the other. Jon wanted to continue on his conquest of a trophy pike so they went off in search of that while me and Nick went to explore a reef that had been discovered that morning that was not on any maps. As we went back and forth over this newly discovered reef I threw down a marker so we could visually see where the end of it was. we trolled over with cranks and were able to pick up a couple walleyes and as we went over the drop I could see fish stacked up on the sonar. It was time to anchor. We dropped anchor, loaded a leech on our jig heads and began to bring in walleye and smallies. What a great end to Iron Lake.