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Tuscarora Opener
by RainGearRight

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 05/14/2012
Entry & Exit Point: Missing Link Lake (EP 51)
Number of Days: 4
Group Size: 7
Day 3 of 4
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Windy, real windy. Breakfast made and eaten. Rollers washing up onto our western shore. Back to bed. I tried to fish around the island. Banged up my shins and had no luck. Pitched the 15X15 CCS tarp to run the stove. Made lunch, the jackals are getting restless. Boredom sets in and necessitates a game of "pine cones stuffed in a sock" baseball. The CCS tarp making a nice backstop. Even Big J awoke to play some ball

An ex-Gopher turning on one

And then rounding the bases

We entertained ourselves for a few hours until the wind died. Ab and I went fishing until dark and picked up a few more trout, the final one getting wrapped up in my line as it got to dark to see. We headed back to camp. Before beaching the canoe we drug out a few land lines beyond the shallows off shore. Lighted slip bobbers with a jig and leech. J pulled in a 38" northern before we got the canoe back to shore.