What another beautiful morning! Temps in the low 50's again and mostly sunny. This was the first time since 2006 I didn't have to sleep with long underwear on (sorry if that is too much information, but this was weird considering the below freezing temps we'd been dealing with the previous four trips).

After breakfast we headed to the rapids we had fished the night before and this turned out to be one of our best days fishing ever. In the morning I caught a 19" and 20" walleye and my canoe partner, Erik, caught at least six northern in the 32"-34" range. Brett, one of the guys in the other canoe, managed to catch a beautiful 25" walleye.

We went back to camp for an early dinner, a fish fry, and then decided to head back to the same set of rapids for the evening bite, and what a night! Around 7:45 I thought I got snagged on a rock as I'm prone to do with a jig and a minnow, but then I felt the line tug the other way. Whatever it was it felt solid. After about two or three minutes of trying to get this thing to the surface I get the first glimpse of the monster walleye that had decided to take my 1/16 oz Blakemore Roadrunner. After a another minute or so I manage to land a 29" 9 lb walleye, by far the biggest one I have ever caught. I'd always hoped to catch a 5-7 lbs fish up there, so obviously I can check this off my bucket list. After a quick pic, I released the fish and continued fishing.

About a half hour later I hook into another good fish that ends up being a 26" 6.5 lbs walleye. About five minutes after that my friend Trevor, in the other canoe, lands a 26.25" walleye.

Finally, Erik hooks into something massive only to discover that he has a 15" walleye on his ultralight that a fat (and I mean fat) 36"+ northern is trying to eat. He manages to keep the fish on the line for two or three minutes and gets it to the surface two or three times, but unfortunately the northern eventually spits the walleye out. The good news is we were able to keep the walleye.