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Four guys and a pit bull in the BWCA.
by coachjeff

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/13/2011
Entry & Exit Point: East Bearskin Lake (EP 64)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 4
Day 2 of 5
Sunday, August 14, 2011. After a great nights sleep, we all awake to a beautiful sunrise, and mosquitoes, lots of mosquitoes. The plan for the day was to find a better camp site and start fishing. After eating breakfast, we load up each canoe with a tarp and some rope to erect a makeshift tent to claim a site. We get in the water and beeline it straight to "The Point". No one is there!!! It's Ours!!! We quickly inspect the site and claim it as our own. This would be our home for the next three nights. Time to head back to the previous site to pack up and move out. From site to site, it's about a two mile paddle. We had to do this three times with the dog in the boat. Once we got all of the gear to our new home, i was pretty much done being in a boat for the day.
The plan for the day was to fish the day away. Geoffrey and I fished from shore for a while, but decided to venture out in the canoe in hopes of actually catching fish. Neither of us were professional anglers by any means, so we each came with a bunch of lures that we didn't know anything about. After a few hours of fishing, we were quite proud of the one smallie we came back with. Ron and Minong returned with two smallies and we all agreed that the fishing was dismal at best. Regardless, we cleaned the fish and had a mini fish fry. I was rather suprised at how little meat was actually recovered from each fish. It was now time to make a real meal and relax for the rest of the evening around the fire with some cigars and some of Ron's "Jungle Juice". BTW, Ron's nickname for the rest of the trip became Juice, as every three hours, he felt the need to make more. The plan for tomorrow was to head to Johnson Falls. After a much better day, we all had our fill of Juice's juice, and headed to bed.