Wow…time to go home. For the first time ever, I actually didn’t want to go home. For the first time ever, I had not broken down my fishing equipment the day before. Maybe it was due to the slow smallie fishing, maybe it was something else. All I know is this………This trip was a fantastic trip. Not only did it go well, and not only did we have great weather and eat like kings, but this was one of the only trips were there were no group issues.

This was in fact one of my best and favorite trips.

Everyone broke camp pretty quickly; Kristen_E and GadgetMan had not planned on doing any fishing the final day, so they went ahead to the ranger station. The would end up waiting a couple hours, since Chms, SmallieSaver, Dave_B and I were all going to fish out.

We made it to the ranger station by 9:30 or 10:00am. After talking with Janice and purchasing some stuff from the “Friends of Quetico”, we asked Janice if she could contact VCO to see if we could get an earlier tow. Our initial tow was scheduled for 12:00pm. We changed it to 11:00am.

We reached Hook Island and only had to wait a few minutes before the towboats arrived. I still could not believe this trip was over………it went so fast. This was still a pretty long trip, but for some reason I wanted to stay an couple more days. I guess I will just have to wait until next year.

Final Thoughts:

Man, what a GREAT trip. There were not too many issues on this trip. I didn’t mention the dog Cooper too much because Cooper was fantastic and I would not have any issues bringing him again.

Everyone seemed to get along great. The weather all week was GREAT. According to Chms and SmallieSaver, the fall smallie fishing was GREAT. It helps to get lucky and pick the right spots to target, AND have trip partners that allow others to experience a known, guaranteed magic spot.

Dave_B and I had a fantastic trip. The food was GREAT.

I cannot wait until next year.