BWCA Bucket List Trip
by Micanthropyre
We travelled up the day before, spending the night in the Williams and Hall bunkhouse. Morning brought us a pancake breakfast in the Williams and Hall dining room and shortly after we were on our way to Birch via the tow boat. Our route out to Knife lake was well worn and quite busy, with us crossing paths with several groups at every portage. After arriving on Knife we broke out the trolling rods to no avail. We stopped at Isle of Pines briefly, but seeing as we were hoping to hit Thunder Point yet this day we didn’t hang around for a very long time. Unfortunately we didn’t really take into account the queue that can form at these portages - we spent a fair amount of time waiting our turn. Fortunately, everyone was really respectful and despite the additional waiting, things were flowing quite smoothly even with the large number of people moving through. We were approaching Thunder Point around 4pm, so we decided to try and find a campsite nearby and hike up it the following morning. We lucked into an empty Campsite 1460 - a beautiful site right away! Our group had Sean and Jon in tents, with James and I rolling with hammocks. Plenty of space for everyone at this site. We fished the bay behind us after dinner and I managed a fair few nice smallmouth bass, a really nice pike, and a walleye! All sent back swimming along with the bass my brother caught and we retired for the night.