Up early, we were heading for Koma, so we knew we would have a longer day ahead of us. It was raining lightly and quite cool compared to Monday. It turns out that the rock slab for the kitchen area can be very slick when wet, so we had to be careful moving around. Same thing for the climb down to the landing. We paddled up Phoebe to Knight lake which is full of Lily pads. Then the river, Hazel, more of the river and on to Polly and then up to Koma. The portages here seem to be much less used that what we saw between Sawbill and Phoebe. The paths are more narrow and a little overgrown, but otherwise not too difficult.  One exception was the 97 rod portage into Polly. The storm on Monday night had knocked down several trees that were blocking the path. Someone had come through before us and had cut some of the branches so we could at least climb over or push under most of them. We were very thankful that we were single portaging. The landing at Polly was also blocked by a downed tree. The trunk of the tree was parallel to the shore about 4 feet off the ground. Again, someone had cut a few branches to make a small hole to access the water. We were able to load the canoe one end at a time and off we went on Polly. Hopefully, it won't be too long before the Forest Service will have this cleared. The wind had picked up by this time and seemed like it was coming straight out of the North, so we had a tough paddle up Polly to the portages on the North end of the lake. The portages between Polly and Koma are well used, wide and in good shape. The paddle up Koma was another fight against the wind.  We stayed lined up to the wind in the open water and followed the western shoreline up the the site on the Northwest nearest the bay where the portage to Malberg is. This a a great site, sandy landing, open, breezy and lots of trees to rig a tarp. We had a very late lunch, set up camp and started drying gear.  The wind really died down around 6 so we went fishing. We only caught small walleyes, but a couple of Northerns provided at least some action.