Just returned home from a three day camping trip on an island on a lake in the Adirondack Mountain wilderness. My girlfriend and I took the roughly 1 hour long boat trek to our campsite, a tiny island filled with pines and surrounded by rocky shoals.

Even though the fishing wasn’t great, it was about as perfect of a trip as I could have hoped for. I did get into a bunch of smallmouth, but nothing with any real size to em. Still, smallmouth crushing topwater baits around shoals and boulders is always a blast. The Rapala Skitterwalk did most of the damage as it often does in early June. Picked up a few on poppers, senkos and Ned rigs as well. A wire on my depth finder broke and without the means to fix it and never having fished this lake, I was flying pretty blind and stuck to mostly mid lake rock piles.

Also witnessed some cool things. Saw a big largemouth spawning with a smallish smallmouth. Ive never observed interspecies romance among bass before. Also saw several wolf packs of large bass crushing the shallows. They were extremely skittish, which is typical when I see these packs of bass together.

All in all it was a perfect trip. Spending a few nights listening to the call of the loons and not much else is all it takes for me. Only thing that was missing was my old dog who was always my camping buddy, but she passed on a month ago. It hurt not having her on that island with us. I know she would have loved it. But I’ll definitely be returning to this place to camp and fish again.

Great trip!!!

I love it up there.

I'll be heading up there next week for a week of camping and kayak fishing.

@herder good luck! Hopefully the black flies will be manageable for you. Luckily it was breezy enough most of the time to keep them at bay.

Funny you said that, I've been lucky in the past with the black fly's.

I was just looking on line for black fly head nets😃

Is their one that you recommend ?

I would have loved your trip!