Charlie Foltz

Tried to get to Allagash Lake, but found it impossible.

We had spent like eight hours trying to go upstream until we got to a point where we said, well, we're not even at the halfway mark.

We turned around and it took us, uh,

about 15 minutes to go back down to where we started.

So we set up camp right there on the river that night in this camp location.

The following morning is when we canoed down to the Eagle Lake portage area.

So it was a three quarter of a mile portage that we had to carry our canoes and all of our gear.

So how we rigged it is that we lashed two poles that ran perpendicular to the canoe.

And then the four of us would just pick up the ends with the canoe in between us and then walk the canoe over to the other lake, went back and retrieved a second canoe and then got out on the water.

And we were going to camp at Pillsbury Island.

That was our goal.

But there was a canoe about, I don't know, a quarter of a mile in front of us.

And that is where he beeline straight to.

So we're like, well, we don't want to camp with other people anymore.

So we went to our secondary, which was Smith Brook campsite.

We set up our camp for the night and then we decided, hey, let's try and catch some fresh fish so we can supplement and have a fish meal or something.

So we built a fire because it was getting dark.

So we built a fire that we knew would burn for close to three hours.

And went out on the lake and we had to navigate through standing trees, logs in the water.

And it took us maybe about 25, 30 minutes to work our way through all this obstruction to get to the site that we were fishing at, which was maybe about 500 yards from our campsite.