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Father Daughter bonding
by bentshaft

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/02/2020
Entry & Exit Point: Seagull Lake (EP 54)
Number of Days: 7
Group Size: 2
Day 3 of 7
Tuesday, August 04, 2020 No Travel

Woke up to a fog over the lake and even some in the camp. The sun burned thru the fog and it was another perfect day. After breakfast we headed out fishing. Plan was to troll between our island the island to the NE and see if we could find any fish. Not 100 yards from camp Lauren had one on. As I reeled up to stay out of her way, I had one. As I got mine close to the boat I could see 4 or 5 more swimming around him. Couple of nice bass released. After catching a few more, Lauren informed me she had on something bigger. It wasn’t something bigger it was 2 nice bass each caught on a treble! After catching bass for a little over an hour, we decided the neighborly thing to do was let the guys we talked with yesterday know we were catching nice bass just off our campsite and invite them to fish that area if they wanted. Nice conversation and we headed back to fish. After catching and releasing a few more, had lunch and decided to swim. Paddled around and explored the north end of the lake, couple of sand beaches, watched and eagle fly over, and some loons out preening. Ate and decided to try some evening fishing in a spot our southern friends had described to us in the afternoon. Lauren definitely outfished me today. This was maybe the perfect BWCA day. Perfect wether, relaxing swim, great fishing, and awesome company. Boulder lake today may be the closet thing to heaven on earth I’m going to find!