Friday, July 09, 2021~Malberg Lake, Koma Lake, Lake Polly Instead of traveling all the way from Malberg to the EP, we decided to spend one more night on Polly sop today was the day we paddled back to Polly. Left camp 9:50. Arrived Polly 11:40, campsite 2013 on the mid-lake island at 12:10.

Malberg was like glass. I love those conditions when paddling a canoe. We stopped at the portage out of Malberg to explore the river feeding into Malberg. There was just a relative trickle of water flowing into Malberg. The girls climbed to the top of the big rock in the middle of the river and I took photos of them.

We went out fishing for a couple hours in the late afternoon. My wife and I had no luck, but the young women found a walleye hole in the rocks just south of campsite 1074. They kept a couple for us to have for dinner -- a nice way to finish off the last night of camping. Given the hot, sunny weather, I can't believe we caught all of our walleyes in 6-9' of water. Go figure.

After we got out, we learned of the fire ban that start this day. We cook over the open fire and enjoyed the fried fish over the fire in blissful ignorance. Given the weather we've had this summer, I was a little surprised a fire ban wasn't put in place before our trip started. I'm thankful it wasn't and we were very careful with our fires.