Bill and Matt D's First Canadian Fishing Trip

Travel Travails Dominate

Things not off to a flying start. Andy leaves South Bend at 1:30 Friday afternoon (driving new van conversion) but does not arrive at Joe's until 5:30! Construction on the Kennedy plus Memorial Day traffic took their toll. Took 1:45 to go from Comiskey Park ramp to Edens. Delays did not end there. Had a 15-30 minute backup paying the last toll before Wisconsin. Them ran into construction on the I90-94 stretch just past Madison - 1.5 hour delay. Some parts were dead stops. Good thing that we left earlier than scheduled (because Matt changed his schedule to work nights and Bill has Friday afternoons off in summer). Seems like crowds everywhere on the way up. Breakfast at Int'l Falls was jammed. Even had to wait to enter Canada. The frosting on the cake though was when we finally got all the way to the end of our journey, we had a 3 hour wait to fly-in - backed up due to "bad" weather - oh yeah, almost forgot - it snowed in Minnesota on the way up and there was some patchy snow on the ground in Canada. Very cold - 37 degrees Saturday morning (had $52 worth of hamburgers in Savant Lake for lunch).

Cold, Cold Start

Matt's flight was not too "turbulent" but he was glad when it was over. Finally got to camp around 6:00 pm but we still got out to fish by 7:00. Coldest fishing day I can remember except for the snow day at Nameigos! Caught a few in regular spots. We're told that it was a very late spring - ice out around May 10 - so the fishing is different than Andy has experienced here (he feels pressure to put the group on the fish. Everyone sleeps like logs that night. Dinner was brats late at night.