Quetico Solo: Day Two - ©Doug Clark

Day 6
Even though it was a lateish evening, I wanted to check out a dawn smallie patrol. Hit the water about 5 and got half a dozen on a shoreline topwater run. One nice one. Soon I was searching for a shady spot to cast. When those disappeared, I switched over to subsurface and started rolling again. Another nice one. Flipped on the depth finder coming back to camp and found 80' depth. Hmmmm. Took a break and then did some channel mapping. Got several more nice fish. Finally made it up to the falls and fished about half of that before my arm wore out. LOL.

Grabbed a couple of eater walleye on the way back to camp. Bath. Laundry. Maintenance. Nap. Turned dead calm before dark, so went for a sunset paddle. Mirrored. Really nice.

And a remembrance to add from last night. The new water filter was ready for it's first cleaning, and I went for it after dark. Oops. I had copied the pages of relevance from the instruction book, and I must have skipped to the wrong section in the middle of the job... I took stuff apart that didn't need to be. After cleaning and reassembling, no workie.... At least I had a jug of water already made, so decided to wait for light to work on it. I was having coffee this morning and saw a small shiny washer on the ground. Picked it up and went for the manual. Sure enough, it belongs in the picture, as well as one more piece.... the Duck Bill Valve. You've got to be kidding.... It took almost 2 hours to find that one. Smaller than a dime, and gray in color. I DID find it. Filter working again. Thank you.