It would be best if we were not allowed to go to crown land for camping. If we did go, we would need to prep by shopping extra and buying gas, both of which put us into more person to person contact, or at least in contact with other 'touch points.' The restricted movement is good, but we don't need to be legislated. We can just restrict our own movement because we're smart enough to understand why it's a good idea. 3 weeks of no one driving anywhere or doing any extra contact outside their homes, and we'll be back to the woods sooner. Mess around and no one goes camping till 2021. 

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Caught ...  I'm not great at filleting (especially trout) so this works out well for me since it's really hard to mess up and has virtually zero waste.  Since there are no scales, I just leave the skin on.  When cutting the head, don't cut all the way down and you can pull everything out together with your thumb for easy disposal.

2 things:
1 - You don't have to worry about waste anymore because 'spoon meat.' You can scrape off anything left on the bones after a filet cut with a spoon. Go back towards the tail. It's like ground/minced trout. Shape it into a heart-shaped pattie and give it to the kid you like best, or the one who will actually eat it. 
2 - I don't discard the head. I like the cheek meat and the collar meat goes pretty high up too. I also like the fat right where the fins meet the body. 

Good read. Bummer about the photo apparatus. You probably stuck your thumb in front of each frame anyways. Nothing lost. 

Have you looked at rotator cuff exercises for the shoulders? 

Fully behind the bridge idea. 

You're staying one night, so 2 days? If you want to look down at Starling lake, then clockwise. 

I've soloed Tim - Big Bob - Loontail Jctn - Rosebary - out at Tim. There are 2 good sites on B Bob, and one less good. I like the one on the point (west). Some muddy portages getting there. River travel is easy. For a lot of it, you don't need a paddle because you're just pulling yourself through alders, sometimes in the boat and sometimes out. When I went, Latour creek was impossible to paddle for about 300 metres before the portage actually started. 

I walked the portage end of last October. The first 300 meters would have been hell with a canoe. Lots of down trees, and most of it was 6 inches of water. After that, it's a nice walk but a lot of uphill. A couple hundred meters before the end, you have to walk through a grassy creek and get wet again. It felt more like 1500 meters. 
 

There are a lot of beaver dams. Sometimes they are very close to each other. I was there in August a couple years ago, and there were spots between dams that were only about 2-3 inches deep of water. There was a lot of dragging. 
The bigger concern might be whether the side branches are trimmed, or at least when they were last trimmed. They can close over the whole creek. You might be able to find out by talking to the staff at the Kearney permit office how recently anyone had gone thru to trim.