mastertangler wrote on Sep 16^th, 2011 at 1:00pm:

Mad_Mat wrote on Sep 16th, 2011 at 12:19pm: its no wonder your knees blow out, what with all the fishing lures you must carry around I know right? I'll never learn........ My first canoe trip into the boundary waters I know we had enough tackle to open a bait store. My partner was worried about sitting for long periods (back issues) so we did a route with lots of portaging. We spent all day going from pothole to pothole and carrying all this stuff. It was late August and by the time we stopped and set up camp it was almost dark with hardly no time to fish. What a trip :-[. My feet fell apart with blisters and a bear swiped both our food packs. Basically a fiasco. But I learned a lot. The following year I picked up a solo (my buddy couldn't make it that year) I still bring a lot.

No wonder your buddy couldn't make it... ;D