Sunday, June 10, 2007 Since the wind the day before had whipped us up a bit, we thought we may want to get ahead of it and fish our way out of Knife, take our time through the portages and get into Birch and spend the night there. We caught quite a few big smallies enroute to Birch. we must have caught nearly a hundred smallies for the trip, this kept the boys happy and content. A couple of them could, or actually did, fish the entire day. Even when we found a site on Birch, they loved trying to catch a smallie right in front of our site. It seemed like hours were spent hearing "oooooohhh, he almost took it" or "oh, oh, aaahhhhhh" or my favorite "I think I've got a monster!" We fished the evening around our site and the shoreline. I hooked something in a small bay my son and I were drifting through using a jig head/mister twister combo. I am hoping it was not a walleye, but sadly enough it was acting like one. It kept it's head down and did little shaking. I was going were it wanted to go and I was getting excited to see her. I had her almost to the boat the she spit the jig out! I am hoping I lost a pike, but I will never know.