-Low 80s, with some building wind for brief periods. Mostly mid to upper 70s with mostly sunny skies.

-We decided to do a day trip to chase some lake trout. We had some intel that a small lake had a good amount of lake trout that we wanted to chase. It was a little longer paddle then we had anticipated but ended up being a pretty good day. We trolled some mid-lake structure with lindy rigs and picked up the biggest Walleye of the trip so far at 24” and a couple nice smallmouth. Zack and Tyler tried fishing out from Eddy Falls but did not have any luck. Brad and I focused on a couple mid-lake reefs and would pick up a Walleye or Smallie on each pass, but the wind made it a pain. Tyler and Zack headed down the main lake and started fishing a large reef down the lake that they stumbled upon. They caught a bunch of walleyes on slip bobbers in about an hour. We joined them for about a half hour and caught a few as well before we headed towards our trout lake.

We bushwhacked our way back to the lake. On the portage there we encountered the only really bad buggy stretch on the whole trip. It was a longer portage but nothing too bad. We fished for a couple hours and each managed to catch a couple lake trout but nothing too consistent. We marked a decent number of fish, but they did not seem to be actively feeding. It was fun to try something different and I have not caught too many lake trout. We took a break and had some lunch. The action was not too exciting, so we headed out to the main lake and tried some trolling spoons for lake trout there as well. It was pretty windy, so it was difficult to fish effective, but we gave it a couple hours but to no avail.

Back at camp we did some more relaxing in the hammocks with napping and other leisure activities. I did some more slip bobber fishing. I was finally able to catch the big Smallie that I had spotted from my ledge overlooking the water. I had spotted him a couple times the previous days and was hoping to catch him at some point. My bobber shot down and I was able to wrestle him into shore to land him. I was able to unhook and put the tape to our 5th smallmouth bass over 20”. I caught a couple others along our campsite shoreline over a couple hour span. We had an early dinner and headed out for an evening of fishing.

We headed out away from camp, down to the area we had fished the previous day. We fished and underwater point/ reef that stuck out into the deep water near the mouth of a bay. It was the area that we saw big smallmouth bass roaming all over the previous day. We decided to anchor on this 10-foot flat as there was deeper water nearby with a lot of boulders and structure for the push to push up onto and feed. We anchored up around 5:30pm and started catching bass right away. We did not keep track of the number of fish we caught but it was easily over 50 during the 4-hour span. We had several doubles and two more smallmouth that were over 20” putting our number at 7 for the trip. As the sun started to get lower in the sky the Walleye began to push up onto the flat and we caught many of them as well. By the end of the night, I would guess the split was pretty close to even. It was without a doubt one of the best 4 hour stretch of fishing I have ever had, especially in the Boundary Waters. We fished the slip bobbers with leeches the whole time. The flat was around 10 FOW and we had our leeches between 1 and 2 feet off the bottom. It was such an amazing night of fishing, one to remember for sure!

Zack and Tyler decided to fish their hump near camp and did pretty well again catching quite a few walleyes and smallmouth once again with some quality size Smallmouth (1 over 20” putting our total at 8 for the trip) as well as some low 20s Walleye. We paddled back to camp on a beautiful and calm lake as the moon rose. We had a nice campfire and some drinks around the fire and talked about our awesome evenings of fishing.