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Annual Fall Trip to Lake Agnes
by adludwig

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 09/11/2013
Entry & Exit Point: Moose/Portage River (north) (EP 16)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 4
Day 2 of 5
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Day 2 started out with a quick breakfast and onto the lake we went. Our mission on these trips is to fish, fish, fish. We do take the time to enjoy nature, camping, etc., but we are all crazy about our fishing! The theme of our trip was realized pretty soon as we started picking up walleyes all over the lake! It didn't matter where we went, we would catch walleyes. This was just the start of an amazing trip full of ridiculous amounts of walleyes!!! We rely pretty heavily on fish for our sustenance up there, so we kept enough for a meal and then enjoyed much more catch and release fishing, even switching over to casting for northerns for a while.

We found a large rock across the bay to clean fish on, and one of the highlights of the trip was to watch the ravens and eagles do battle over the fresh fish guts. We spent the rest of the day catching more walleyes and northerns, and enjoyed 2 meals of fish for the day. We ended Day 2 much like the first one: Cocoa, Campfire, and Sasquatch howls (OK, I am the only one who does the noise, and I have often wondered how it sounds on the other side of the lake). We slept hard and fast, ready for what the next day would bring!