Thursday, June 21, 2007 Up very early to a beautiful sunrise.  Mist on the lake and the sun rising, what a site. I decided to fish from shore since it early and Jr was still sleeping. I was using a rappalla and cast under a small tree and I got a hit. Reeled it in and it was a good size smally. I had snagged him just below the gill and on the belly. Don't know if he struck and missed or I just snagged him by accident. Naturally this work up Jr andnow he wanted to fish. So we took the canoe and did some fishing with no luck. We got back to camp and had lunch. Our neighbors had gone out fishing, trolling past our camp down towards the Knife portage. On the way back they hooked a good size northern about 100 – 150 years from our camp.  When Sean landed the northern he hit it on the head several times with the paddle, but was unable to kill it. They paddled over to our camp and we showed him our bass. We thought we should be able to catch a few more fish and eat dinner together. So we put the northern on our stringer with the bass. Sean had laid his fishing pole on the ground and Jr accidentally stepped and broke the pole. Since this was our last day, but Sean and his wife's 2nd day out we though it only fair to give him one of our poles. Later when I went to check on the stringer of fish, the bass was there, but only the head of the northern remained. We thought it might be a snapping turtle, but it would have had to be a pertly big one. We grabbed our fishing gear and went out to see if we could catch some more fish. We caught up with Sean and told him about the northern. Thank goodness he was OK with it. First Sean's pole and then his northern. What next? We fished and Jr got a few bites but no fish. Sean ended up catching a good size bass and a small walleye. Me and Jr returned to camp and Sean dropped by the camp later and we showed him the head of the northern. He was quite amazed.  We cooked the bass and had our last BW dinner, a nice campfire and packed up everything we could, since this was our last night in the BW. Except for Saturday this was the best day of the trip. Beautiful weather and we were able to fish most of the day, even though we only caught one smally.