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BWCA First Timers- EP26 Wood Lake
by minnesotashooter

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 07/05/2010
Entry & Exit Point: Wood Lake (EP 26)
Number of Days: 4
Group Size: 3
Day 2 of 4
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Ate breakfast with Mark at Jordan's and then headed to EP26, Wood Lake. Once we got all loaded up and then started down the portage. Thankfully this one is mostly downhill since I think we overpacked. We made it to the lake and got everything situated, since this was our first time, it took a little while longer. It took us a while to finally figure out how we were all supposed to paddle and turn but once we got it down, so wasn't to hard. We had one 18.5 Souris River Kevlar canoe for all of us. We were hoping to get the campsite closest to the portage into Hula and it was open so we took it and started getting set up. After camp was up, we headed out into the lake to do some fishing. We fished the narrows part of the lake and the wind was perfect that we could drift sideways right down through the narrows. Just about every pass through we would pick up a fish or two, mainly walleyes but one bass and a couple of small northerns. After a successful afternoon, we headed up towards the most northern island on the west side of Wood, it has a really deep hole just on the north side of it and we drifted through there with no luck, so back to the narrows it was. We headed back for supper and enjoyed a supper of steaks and spanish rice. After supper, we went out fishing again in the narrows but the fish seemed to have moved out. Went back to camp and slept the night away, well at least my buddies did. I was up most of the night with some miserable allergies.