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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 4 of 5
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Our last full day of the trip we decided early in the day to chase some more of Agnes's walleyes. They cooperated very well on their meal of the week: a jig and twister tail. We lounged around camp a little more than normal that day, but the prior day had wiped us out, plus fishing on Agnes was tough the whole trip as we battled the wind off and on the whole trip. The wind finally cooperated that afternoon and we chased the real beauties of Agnes... The crappies! Never before have I ever seen so many 15 and 16 inch crappies! They were unbelievable!

"George" caught one of the biggest crappies I have ever seen! There was no doubt it was 2 pounds!
The fun part was that everyone got in on the action. We are always a little worried when we bring a greenhorn up there, but my brother-in-law is a decent fisherman and even a better learner. He held his own with us over the entire trip. We enjoyed a meal of crappies the last evening. A nice change of pace.. Hehehe
By the last night we were almost sick of fish! We had such an unbelievable fishing trip, words or pictures could never truly describe it. The last night around the fire and we had already begun talking about next year's trip. On how we were going to have to go to Stuart for a day, etc.