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2005 Trip...6/26-7/1 (Mudro- Crooked)
by woodpecker

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/26/2005
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days: 6
Group Size: 3
Day 2 of 6
Monday, June 27, 2005

After breakfast of homemade biscuits and sausage gravy and breaking camp, we headed back through
Gun and onward to the "BIG" 326 rd. portage into Wagosh....(we all decided we wouldn't like to hit one
like that to many times a day). From Wagosh..to Niki, Chippewa, and Papoose via Papoose creek and 1
beaver dam and one portage we arrived at our destination--Friday Bay on Crooked Lake.. This would
"our" lake for the next couple nights..

Set up camp on the second site in and just in time too...welcome to Crooked Lake, a storm like we'd
never experienced in the BWCA complete with snapping trees and the lake being swirled of the surface
in sheets... Glad it lasted just a short time.

After supper of Mexican Brats..(Bratwurst wrapped in flour tortillas) we hit the water in search of the
fish....Smallmouth Bass.. Caught several smallies and several northern, including hooking but not
landing a big pike that we estimated 30+"...no fish story!
We crashed at dark trying to escape the ankle-biting flies.