Wednesday, May 20, 2020 We woke at 6 am and packed some of our last items for the canoe portion of our trip before breakfast was delivered to our door at 7 am. After satisfying the tab with Andy and discussing some route options for our return to Ely, we jumped into our 20' 9" four person canoe with 2 people and 2 packs. I'm sure some of the other groups at the resort were a little perplexed as to why these two yahoos were paddling off in such a barge of a canoe. Needless to say, the Bell Northshore 4 paddled beautifully as predicted and I got used to the extra portage weight rather quickly as we had 13 portages to do today. We paddled from Round Lake all the way to Little Saganaga today via Brant-Gotter- Bat- Gillis- Crooked-Mora. It was a full day of paddling, but we loved it compared to hiking the Kek and we set up camp on Little Sag around 5:30. After a hot dinner, some lounging in the hot sun and some candy for dessert we decided to call it a night. I was brushing my teeth by fire grate and happen to see a fish boil. I brought fishing gear, but up until this point we hadn't had time or the desire to toss a line in as we've been trying to put miles behind us. But, now was the time, so I pulled out my son's telescoping, 5' long, 6 pound test rod with a jig and twister tail and threw it out there. On the second cast, I was pulling in a nice, eater sized lake trout. Awesome. After a quick video, I released it and decided to call it a night. It's always fun pulling in a fish, a bonus when it's a laker. This day improved our morale amazingly and really turned the whole trip around.