Thursday, May 29, 2025 ~Another more mild night. Woke up to clear skies and calm weather. We decided to chase trout again today. 3 canoes headed off to a smaller lake and had a blast for several hours racking in the 16-22” lake trout. None bigger than that but they were scrappy and aggressive and we had a lot of fun. I would say we caught around 35. We hooked a couple of them poorly so smoked them at a campsite to go with our shore lunches. I have to say for no seasoning, butter, or anything they were still really good!

We made it back to camp and talked with the rest of the guys and talked through the next couple days and explored how people were doing and what they were thinking for the next couple days. They guys were enjoying themselves but we did make the decision to start heading back towards the entry point. So with that being said we wanted to make the most of the day and get all the fishing in that we could before heading out tomorrow.

  

With this being the last day we spread out over the big water of Knife to chase a variety of species. A few chased Pike and bass in the shallows, a couple canoes chased after lake trout. My canoe (Alex and I) went for bass. Him and I did well but the rest struggled overall. A few pike and Smallies for the group but no trout. My brother and his canoe partner claimed to have a huge pike on for a few minutes before it broke them off. They guessed low 40s. I believe they had a big one on but it is so tough to estimate or guess size of big pike. Alex and I however boated 18 Smallmouth bass with the biggest 6 all going over 20". Biggest one at 22". We wanted to keep fishing but we needed to head back to camp for some food and for one last evening walleye fishing.

 

Four of the guys stayed back and just fished from camp for the full evening and they ended up catching 25 walleye on slip bobbers. The other 4 of us went out to the humps and high profile spots we had found for one last evening. Unfortunately it was on the slower side with the 4 of us only combining for 19 walleyes.