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Mudro to Beartrap with the Family
by BWfishingfanatic12

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/08/2012
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 6
Day 2 of 5
Thursday, August 09, 2012

Woke up to a beautiful sunrise and made a fire to boil some water for oatmeal. We packed up camp and ate breakfast as quickly as we could and left just before 9. This was a pretty short and easy day and all the portages went smoothly and we arrived at the site on Beartrap at 11:45. We set up camp to let stuff start to dry out and ate lunch of crackers, cheese, summer sausage, and trail mix. The wind was starting to pick up a bit and the weather was partly cloudy temps in the upper 70s. My brother and I went out to troll lindy rigs for a while and see if we could find where the fish were congregating because it didn’t look like the lake had much structure so we figured we could find them but we only caught a few pike in a couple hours and my dad caught a few small perch from camp. We got back to camp and I decided to paddle out and sit on the island and cast a slip bobber on the calm side off the 20 foot shelf and read my Bible. Lets just say I got a lot of time to read the Bible because the fish weren’t biting. After an hour or so the wind started to pick up more and the rain clouds rolled in and I headed back to camp and we played some cards and got the fire going for supper. We ate a supper of spaghetti at about 6 then my brother and I headed out trolling lindys for walleyes for the night. My brother caught one near the Home creek inlet and I told him we should turn around because there’s always a reason a fish is there and he proceeded to catch 3 straight. We trolled that 100 yard stretch for about an hour but didn’t have a whole lot of success after those 3 within 10 minutes. We thought we had a lot of hits but we couldn’t seem to catch anything and we lost several leeches to what we decided were those little tiny perch that were plentiful and would just nibble. We caught about 15 during our day at Beartrap. While we were fishing the temp dropped at least 15 degrees and we started to get cold and we headed back to camp at like 9:30. The family had a nice roaring fire that we all huddled close to for about an hour as we had some hot drinks and talked. Bed at 11.