It was another gorgeous day. We had a quick breakfast and hit the water. It was our first day trip. We packed a bunch of supplies. We figured that we’d take enough emergency supplies that we could handle any change in weather and perhaps even spend the night if needed. Luckily, none of that gear was needed.

We paddled north on Disappointment. The wind was brisk but the waves were small. It was an easy paddle to the portage. The portage to Ahsub was uneventful.

Ahsub was very pretty. We were amazed how clear the water was. You could easily see the bottom in 10 to 15 feet of water. We quickly found the portage Jitterbug. The water was high enough that it was easy to reach the shore. Jitterbug was nice. It had an old pier for launching the canoe. That made it easy to launch the canoe. We worked our way around Jitterbug to the next portage. The portage wasn’t quite where my McKenzie map showed it. We kept following the shore until we found the portage to Adventure lake.

Adventure went quickly. We were getting itchy to see the falls and made quick work of Adventure. We found the little creek leading the Cattyman. We had to get out of the canoe but then it floated on it’s own to Cattyman.

Once on Cattyman, we could hear the falls. We parked the canoe at the portage to Gibson and grabbed our gear. We hiked past the falls and were quite impressed. We stopped and took a bunch of pictures. Then, we went to the mouth of the river. We had a picnic and fished a bit. I could not catch anything. But two loons were fishing the area below the falls. They were having good success and often came up with fish in their bills.

After a while, we worked our way back to the canoe and eventually back to our camp site on Disappointment. We ran into two groups on Disappointment asking about sites on Ahsub. It was 4:30 pm on the Saturday of Memorial day weekend. They seemed surprised that all the sites on Disappointment were taken.

We had dinner and decided to fish a bit. We walked the shore north of the camp site. We found a nice rock ledge that looked like a pier. We sat on the rock ledge and casted towards the submerged island mentioned earlier. I threw nearly every lure in my box and didn’t have a single bite.

We went back to camp and relaxed around the fire.