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Turning 40 in the Boundary Waters
by jwise82

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/16/2022
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 2
Day 2 of 5
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 It rained overnight with some thunder, my first such experience in a tent. I got up and going about 6:30 and found Kyle fishing his Whopper Plopper from shore. We made up some coffee and tea, enjoyed a hearty breakfast of sausage and egg scramble and got geared up to go fishing. Kyle tossed his Whopper Plopper while I trolled a spinner rig with a crawler. I dropped in and bang, got a nice eater walleye that I tossed back. Later in the morning we caught a couple nice walleye for dinner. Kyle was hoisting some hefty bass as well. We fished for a while with a little smallie and northern action before a lunch break at the unoccupied site we passed up last night. We thought we'd check it out. We headed back out with a focus on topwater smallies. We caught several and a few were quite nice. We worked our way back to camp around 3, the sun was out, wind had died down, and we had to prep for our fish dinner. We had a couple nice walleyes, a northern, and a large gill. Dinner was tasty, after camp chores we did a little bobber fishing and headed off to the tents to beat the skeeters.