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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 4 of 4
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Breakfast was pancakes, bacon and french press coffee! We decided to stay on Wood Lake today since it was going to be our last full day of fishing. We fished the narrows in the morning and did very well. Had a lunch of crackers and summer sausage and then we decided to hit a new area of the lake. We went into the bay on the way to the Hula portgage just around the point there is a large rock sticking up and then on the north side of that point it drops off. We had multiple fish on at one time and did very well for several hours casting Rapalas. These fish were larger on this point. After several hours of catch and release we decided to leave the area and head back there in the evening. We went back to the rock reef that we had fish previously and didn't do nearly as well. Had supper of fish and then went back to the honey hole and boy did it turn on again. I was fishing a slip bobber and leech and the leech wouldn't even get to the bottom of bobber stop and there was a fish on the line. It was non stop walleyes and we had a blast. 

 

We left on early Friday morning and headed home. The portage out of Wood was brutal for us after not being used to paddling so much. All in all, lots of fun and we are planning on heading back again. I loved it, except for the mosquitoes and flies.