I slept better and didn’t wake up until around 0630. John was up and had coffee going. I fried some link sausages and Katie appeared around 0730. David woke up a short time later, about when the sausages were done. I cooked some egg-beater scrambled eggs (there was a ban on bringing avian products into Canada so no fresh eggs) and rehydrated hash browns, and we grilled the walleye with lemon/onion and oil. Another terrific breakfast. As John, David and I were preoccupied getting ready to go out fishing, Katie was quietly casting a Husky Jerk into the shallow bay adjacent to our landing site. “I’m stuck” she announced, but as I walked over to help her, the water erupted and the fight was on between her and what turned out to be a 28” Northern, which we decided to keep for dinner. John again demonstrated how to fillet a Pike, and in particular how to remove the Y-bones. Katie took particular interest, and we cut open the stomach to find a recently ingested crayfish, largely intact. Once this was complete, we set out Northeast, making for what appeared to be a shallow bay, in hopes of having some action with Pike on spoons. I trolled a purpledescent deep Taildancer in hopes of picking up a lake trout, but the water shallowed up and I eventually got snagged. We never made it to the bay, as we located a reef around 23’ deep, surrounded on all sides by deep water… John and David were able to anchor over this (using rocks in a bball net), but I initially only had one rock in my net, and this was not heavy enough to hold our canoe… by the time I had pulled the anchor up and added a second rock, we had drifted quite a ways South, and it was too much of an effort to get back up to the reef where they were, so we ended up working along shore back to camp. John and David had good Walleye action for an hour or so, boating 5 or 6 fat, healthy fish in the 18-25” range. The two smallest were kept to complete the fish dinner and the rest were released. We met back at camp for a lunch of mac & cheese, pita/ham, oranges and trail mix. After lunch we got cleaned up and took a quick swim. The water was reasonably warm, but there wasn’t much sun, so we didn’t stay in long. I brought a camp shower and set it up on a flat rock to heat up, but it never got warm enough that anyone was tempted. After lunch, we did a little more organizing, as we were planning to make the trip out in two days in the event that the wind made it difficult to get off Poobah. We had an early pickup (1030) scheduled for Thursday, and knew we would have to spend Wed. night on Tanner. The wind died down again mid afternoon, and we headed back out to the reef. Katie caught a fat Smallmouth on a pink jighead/chartreuse mister twister. David had caught his Walleye on a 5 of diamonds fished deep, and now he hooked into something that initially acted like a snag. Only after John pulled the anchor and they paddled several canoe lengths did the snag start to move, eventually breaking his line… Shortly after this excitement, Katie was getting frustrated at her inability to tell that her jig was on the bottom… as she tried to demonstrate this for me, her rod bent double, and she proceeded to engage in an epic battle with a beautiful, 23” walleye that I netted for her. I was very proud of her for hanging in there, as the strong fish made multiple runs, and even more excited that she didn’t drop my new St. Croix into the depths of Poobah… I have to say I love the fish gripper, which I bought for this trip… it serves as a very nice handle for holding fish, and keeps your fingers out of the way of their teeth as well as the hooks. Initially Katie wanted to keep her fish, but when we pointed out that we had all we could eat that night, she quickly relented and we watched it swim off… hopefully to fight another day. Following the excitement, we moved off the reef into 60’ of water and tried jigging for trout briefly but Katie and I got tangled with each other, and, after unravelling that, we decided to head in early. I should note that as we were jigging for trout I deployed my drift sock for the first time and it worked quite well, so I will have to remember that in the future when the wind is an issue. After getting back to camp, John taught David the proper way to split wood and we grilled our fish for dinner, after marinating it in lemon juice, oil and onion for about 30 minutes… delicious and a whole let less messy than the standard shore lunch. The kids even loved it. After dinner we cleaned up, got packed up and in the tent by about 845pm, with plans to rise early and head across Poobah in an effort to make some headway before the wind kicked up… once again the kids seemed to fall asleep quickly, while John and I tossed and turned a fair amount before finally dozing off.