Friday, June 24, 2005
Wake up to pancakes with peanut butter and jelly. This becomes our breakfast of choice. We break camp, catch a few northerns and watch three hawks searching for fish in a tandem formation. Then we make our way to Clearwater. The 214 rod portage is long but not bad overall. Clearwater is an absolutely beautiful lake and we chug water like it's going out of style. There's no one on the lake and enjoy watching an Osprey circle and land near the portage to Camdre. We don't catch any fish on Clearwater, but we basically trolled through, realizing that we want to get to Pietro for some smallmouth fishing. The two portages go OK but unknown to us, Denimdemon loses the tip half of one of his rods when the rod tube comes unlatched. He makes a third trip through the second portage and finds it. We get a "five star" camp site atop a tall rocky point with a nice view of the island and head out for fishing. The SMB action is RED HOT and we quickly realize that we need to stay for an extra day to fully appreciate the fishing on this lake. We eat a bass and alfredo pasta for dinner. Jack Daniels and cocoa...mmmmm.