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Husband and wife trip on Malberg.
by schuetpa

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/02/2015
Entry & Exit Point: Kawishiwi Lake (EP 37)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 2
Day 3 of 5
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

During the night it started to rain and we woke up to close the vestibule. I had a bad Charlie horse and scared Nikki she thought I was bear. We had eggs bacon and sausage for breakfast and I had coffee and Nikki had a terrible cappuccino drink (should have tried the new thing before we carried it and packed the rest out. We prepped the canoe to leave with a day pack. but did not make it much more then a few hundred yards from camp and it started to downpour. We went back to camp cause Nikki thought we forgot to close the tent up. We hid in the tent and played a game of hit the trail until the rain stopped. We decided not to do the pictographs on Fishdance because of the late start and fished the river loop instead. We saw a few bald eagles on Malberg they were right on shore. On the short portages I dropped the canoe on my head, because the back end got caught on a cut of tree stump. Not far into the river I had a 14in walleye which was extremely dark and gold. A bit later I had a nice small mouth. I switched Nikki to gold and orange since I was doing well with those colors. We both stated tho catch fish. At the portage by the rapids we could catch little smallies and walleyes. I did have a decent northern as well. We caught a few on the top of the rapids as well but took off to a camp for lunch. We had summer sausage ham and carrot wrap. We trolled the whole loop and caught little slimmers and eyes. We did see one canoe in the morning one at lunch and two at the east postage of the river. We did the portage back to Malberg and Nikki collected some nice dry firewood from a down pine. We fished out of the bay and I caught a very big sunny, 10+ inches. We planned on eating a walleye for supper if we caught one. We did catch a few but nothing of size. We also had a few slimmers. We saw a beaver, loons, and ducks in the narrows.  On the way back to camp we noticed the fishing site taken by a different group the narrows taken by new group and the north site by us taken by two canoes and a kayak. We at roasted hotdogs on the fire and Mac and cheese for supper. For dessert we had cooked apples, Yum. We split fire wood and had nice fire and played 500 rummy during the cloudy sunset.  The skies did start to clear when it got darker. Temp was low 60s with 5-10 mph wind out of the north. Night was mid 40's.