Thursday, May 21, 2009 We went fishing on Fairy lake finally, in the morning, and caught some nice walleyes. We kept two, one about 22" and fat. These fish are like stuffed sausages. They are round. This maybe an underfished lake. It was by us. We should have fished it more, because everytime we did, Fairy Lake produced. Had a visit from a couple of rangers, while dining on our eyes and fried rice, then packed up and humped to Thunder Lake. We were hoping for Beartrap, but learned the one campsite was occupado. We were able to secure another premo campsite on Thunder Lake. The 2nd one in from the portage is choice. This site is on a point, with good rocks, good canoe landing etc. I give it a solid 4 stars. We set up our camp accompanied by a 20 minute John Bohnham drum solo and other Zepplin classics. I tried to explain to Nick that I have been listening to that stuff for 40+ years and really don't need to hear it when I'm tuning into nature. I was dying for the rangers to come cruising by. All in good fun, and we were having it by now. There were very few people around. The weather was fine. Rain here and there and a little chilly in the morning. Not many mosquitos, but some kind of annoying skinny black flies. They were only out in the day, but you had to keep refreshing your bug stuff or they would come back. Nick had some kind of sheiklike getup with his tshirt and hat. I think I ate about a dozen of these pests during the week. (not voluntarily-they like to hang around your head-eyes, ears, mouth-good protein eh) Thunder Lake is a beauty. We had considered camping on Gull, but the only good campsite was taken-and it's a good one. The first campsite in from the portage is mint. The lake is kind of uniteresting though. All open, no islands or interesting bays. The shoreline has medium sized rocks all around it. Like a rock garden or something. Looks like somebody put them there. Thunder Lake is much more pleasing to my eye and our campsite was a good one. Again, I caught a decent sized pike on my first cast off shore. I caught 4 fish in 15-20 minutes moving around the campsite. This lake looks very fertile. There are alot of weeds for a BW lake and minnows in the shallows. We only fished it a little and halfheartedly, but I'm convinced this lake has a good fish population. I've always had a weakness for the slimy ones, with dull, cold blooded, killer eyes. They're hard to kiss though.