Tuesday, July 07, 2009 It was going to be a long day we wanted to push as hard as we could so we were up at 5:30 to try some early morning fishing and had no luck so we broke camp and were headed north by 8am. We shortly came to our first portage Fall Lake into Newton Lake. The portage was packed on the Newton side, 2 groups were taking a short break there and a third was just leaving and the family we had passed on the portage was just arriving. We quickly repacked and were on our way. We approached our next portage heading into Pipestone Bay, then we stopped at where we saw the first path and headed up a very narrow path that was slightly overgrown only to find after about 100 feet it opened up on the actual portage. We had a good laugh about that one. Another busy portage but everyone had cleared by the time we finished so we sat down and rested for a few min and had a snack some gorp and sausage sticks.

We continued up into Pipestone and got to just south of Caribou point before I asked my cousin if he had grabbed the leaches from the last portage, we made a quick backtrack to the portage to retrieve our bait and the family that we had passed on our first portage was just arriving, we waved farewell and were off ...again. Pipestone was fairly easy as we had a slight wind at our back and just a beautiful day ahead. Our last portage was a little trickier to find as it seemed less used that the others but it was also the shortest so that was much appreciated. We had just another short run to the campsite we had been heading to in Back Bay. It was now later in the afternoon possibly close to 5 (none of us had a watch) so we quickly made camp gathered some firewood and cooked up some brats and rice&beans. All of us were just exhausted after dinner so we drank some whiskey and enjoyed the fire till the mosquitoes got too annoying, then headed in for the night.