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First Loop Trip - Father and Son
by spankatolla

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 05/29/2010
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days: 8
Group Size: 2
Day 3 of 8
Monday, May 31, 2010 – Woke up and had breakfast burritos. Newsflash, instant eggs suck. Cleaned dishes and went fishing. Highlight was a 27” northern in which I cleaned up (with only two bones – a new all time low) and had fish tacos. I definitely need to work on the tacos thing. Sky looked as if it could storm at any minute, so we made a late afternoon journey over to Lower Basswood Falls. We noticed a couple of guys fishing below the falls from land, but otherwise not a soul in sight. We journeyed back out fishing, with only one eater walleye, so we let him go. Came back to camp to notice all of our fresh meat had thawed, so we cooked up the pork chops(4), chicken breasts(3), and onion burgers(3). Jake had the nerve to ask what we were going to have as a side dish. Ate so much I thought we were going to explode. Jake shore fished that evening and caught a perch. One thing to note about this campsite was there was a tent pad for one and really no good place to hang a tarp. I was able to get a tarp up, but it definitely wasn’t very pretty. We took a vote and decided tomorrow we were to travel to Thursday or Friday Bay.