We went to Ted's, hiked in with our backpacks and each dragged a sled with gear. Didn't end up using the winter tent and instead just made a tarp shanty tent. Slept in winter sleeping bags on our mats on a tarp on the ground. And made a roof and make shift tarp walls for protection from the rain. It ended up raining saturday but our shanty held up and kept us dry. Really liked doing it this way when the weather was warm enough that the winter tent and woodstove were not required. A fair bit more room and less gear to drag in.
The first night we just had the roof and floor tarp for our sleeping area. We suspected in might rain the second day and added the walls and the tarp over our fire sitting and gear laydown area. We decided next time we do this in weather warm enough for using our sleeping bags like this (without tent and woodstove) we will make a more thought out and better setup tarp tent structure.
Unfortunately we didnt catch any fish. We were very mobile, trying different locations and hopping around multiple holes at different depths. Saw one of the flasher but that was it.
The trail was still heavily snowed and lots of deep water in the low spots.