Friday, May 30, 2025 ~More mild sleeping weather again. We had elected as a group to head out one day earlier than originally planned. We had some amazing fishing and weather and were satisfied with our prospects and we could not really fish and other new water where we were located. The original plan was to get to the entry point lake for the last night to fish and camp in a new area but we elected to paddle all the way out on Friday.

The paddle out was long but relatively uneventful. Moose Lake was much bigger then it seemed during the tow and in hindsight we wish we would have had the tow both ways. It was very convenient but if it ends up getting banned I am okay with that too.

Another successful BWCA trip. Was by far the best weather trip I have had as far as nice sleeping weather, lack of wind, and no rain at all the whole trip. I actually think fishing would have been better with some crappier weather but that is really splitting hairs for the trip. Really wonderful trip with some great friends and my brother. We were a little disappointed we did not catch a few more big walleyes as when my brother and I had gone to this area in 2019 we had caught at least 20 walleye over 25" and this trip we only caught 5 at 25" or bigger and there were 8 of us fishing. But again that is really splitting hairs.

Total Fish Count for the Entire Trip (approx. but conservative estimates) Walleye: 310 Walleye (biggest 27”)- most caught on slip bobbers, jig and leech, or jig and swimbait. Smallmouth Bass: 55 Smallmouth Bass (biggest 22”) - 9 over 20”. Swim bait, wacky worm, ned rig, topwater (just a couple) Brook Trout: 15 or so (biggest 19”) fly rod, spinners, small jigs Lake Trout: 40 lake trout (biggest 22”) white bucktail jigs, whit flukes, spoons Northern Pike: 10 or so. Don’t think anyone targeted pike much on this tip (mostly smaller ones. Biggest was maybe 30”)