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How low? Solo
by Ioway

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 09/19/2021
Entry & Exit Point: Sawbill Lake (EP 38)
Number of Days: 7
Group Size: 1
Part 2 of 7
Another great day in the BWCA. Partly sunny, cool and breezy. Coffee & Oatmeal. The guests (can't remember any of their names) sent the two younger members off to find an open campsite leaving grandma and grandpa with the two young boys 4 and 6 maybe. I slipped down the shore to the west to try my luck fishing. The contours on the map looked promising maybe deep close to shore, I did catch a few smallies and a small walleye. that would turn out to be the fishing theme for this campsite "small fish problem". The young couple came back and had found a site open by the portage. They packed up, we shook hands and they were off right back into the same 2.5' white caps that brought them to the north end of the lake the night before. After watching them struggle to get around the corner, into the wind and start moving, I was glad I offered them a spot the night before, it would have been cruel to send them back out given their obvious lack of canoe experience . If I'm ever late and can't find a camp site open I hope karma will pay me back.