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Moose River North to Iron
by Wables

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/13/2012
Entry & Exit Point: Moose/Portage River (north) (EP 16)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 6
Day 3 of 5
Friday, June 15, 2012

Finally a nice day!!! We hit the water early, with all 3 canoes fishing their way across Iron to meet up at Curtain Falls for lunch. We picked a beautiful spot to snack and nap, and watched one of the canoes from Friday's group (we were convinced it was the same group, but could be wrong) capsize in the current below Curtain beyond the view of the other 2 canoes in the group. We whistled and flagged down the 2 other canoes, and one went off to the rescue. Several of us have first hand experience in this, and we spent the rest of the weekend discussing what they did right and what they did wrong. I was glad it wasn't me...again.

We caught plenty of fish for dinner, and made a nice evening paddle boating a number of smallies and walleyes around the islands in front of the camp site.

 Most of the walleyes were caught pretty deep - 15 to 20 FOW. The big smallies were in about 10 FOW and caught on light jigs and leeches. The male smallies were all over in the shallows and would hit just about anything.