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Boulder Bay 2009
by spankatolla

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/05/2009
Entry & Exit Point: Moose/Portage River (north) (EP 16)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 3
Day 3 of 5
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Woke up this morning and ate English muffin sandwiches. Another cloudy day. Decided to try and find the crappies. found everything but. shore fished the point in front of our campsite and then the island. Caught fish, but the rate was definitely slower then the prior days. Manny caught a hog of a smallie, easily the biggest of our trip. Came back to camp and cleaned some of the fish we had caught and ate a steak bagel sandwich for lunch.

Jake made the group decision to shore fish for the remainder of the day. Continued to catch more fish. Ate bacon wrapped beef loins with mashed potatoes for supper. The sun crept out from underneath the clouds, giving me the only opportunity for a sunset picture of the trip. Again enjoyed the evening campfire with all our outdoor friends.

Now at this point we were three days into our trip, and I was enjoying every minute of the solitude. I couldn't get over the lack of people we were seeing. We would see no more than three canoes a day. Our campsite was around the bend of the other two sites (which only one was occupied) and never saw or heard anyone in the evening. I couldn't get over how beautiful the campsite was, surrounded by tall pines and blanketed with a pine needle carpet. Bugs were nonexsistant with the wind off of the lake. We couldn't have had a better spot.