Monday, June 21, 2004
I arise early and see beautiful sunrise. Everyone else is still asleep so I let them rest, while I get my fishing gear ready and throw out a leech to see if I can get a bite and enjoy a cup of coffee by the waters edge... solitude, peace, and nature... it doesn't get better than that!!! Finally everyone else gets up, and we have a breakfast of bagels and strawberry creamcheese and Crystal Light Sunrise Delight Orange Drink, which is great! Kim and I head out to try and find some lakers while the other couple goes after walleye. We see the other woman catch a walleye around 4.5 lbs... dinner tonight maybe? Kim and I hit deep water, and the wind starts to blow... too hard to troll, so we finally head for a cove to fish for northerns. No luck so we decide to head back to camp, and as we turn the corner to quarter back across the wind, my SR Q 18.5 is turned like a styrofoam cup on top of the water and blown to the opposite end of the lake about 3/4 mile away!! We make it across to the far shore where we rest and then head back island hopping and trying to stay out of the wind as we could! Finally, get back to camp, Kim is exhausted and I am tired so we take a nap, the other couple with us does too. He ties the Walleye out on a stringer and I tell him to put plenty of extra rope to allow the fish to swim from turtles... turtles win however and he wakes up to an empty stringer and a loggerhead by camp wanting more free meals. So instead of walleye we have Cheesy chicken enchilada tacos... build a nice fire relax and talk about taking a daytrip to Fishdance to see the pictographs the next day, if the wind lets us. We all go to bed early again. Miles traveled today 2. Weather high in the 60's, wind again around 20+ mph. No wildlife other than a little red squirrel which came into camp.