Yesterday we packed up and moved a long 25 miles to the Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park. John found out a few days ago that this is supposed to be a great place to go trout fishing. Since I’ve had about enough of John in the RV, I agreed that we should come here so I can have some time to myself while he fishes.
We discovered that this park is in a dead hole - no cell service, no internet! So once we got settled in, we got in the Jeep and drove the 10 miles to Wykoff where we got at least a few bars of service and conducted some business like letting our families know we were incommunicado. It rained lightly off and on during the evening but we have so much forest coverage that not much hit the ground so we were able to enjoy a nice time around the fire.
Today, John got going fairly early to fish and I hiked a couple of trails in the park logging about 5 miles. One trail took me along the Canfield Creek which feeds into the South Branch of the Root River. I found information that there used to be a beaver dam on this creek. Sure enough, there used to be a dam but even though it is mostly gone, the beavers are still there! I saw two small ones swimming in the stream. I also found a trout hole, so full of trout that it looked like a hatchery! Too bad John didn’t fish here, he might have caught more. He caught two in the morning and two in the afternoon and lost at least 4 more.
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