Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

Meps #2,3,4, and 5
by BigTim

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/04/2025
Entry & Exit Point: Skipper and Portage Lakes (EP 49)
Number of Days: 7
Group Size: 2
Day 4 of 7
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Another day, another hot fishing day. We do not recall catching so many big bass. Only caught a couple of smaller ones the entire week. We released everything to this point - and believed Friday Night fish was in our future.

Another special Ellie Asian meal - awesome as always. We not only ate like kings, we successfully fished like kings.

Our original plan was to skip over to Banadad or back to Skipper - but "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" became our new plan. We had four days without seeing another human being - and the days that people paddled to the Banadad portage, no one was fishing. Rush is a long E to W lake - with almost two miles between campsites.

Another mosquito induced bed time.