Thursday, July 17, 2008 Fishing day! After a filling breakfast of potatoes and bacon wrapped in tortillas we start fishing. We throw everything we have from our camp site (Water is about 25 ft here) and get no bites what so ever – not a good sign. So we hop into the canoe and head back over to the bay where the portage from Jordan comes into. I tie on a silver spinner with a 3 in gulp minnow; my son does the same with a gold spinner and a leech. We troll and drift the bay once and go back across to start casting. BAM, I get a strike, not that big a hit but I soon feel the weight of something big and tell my son, I have a big fish on. I work him closer to the canoe and see a Northern flash as he runs, doubles the pole over and starts peeling out the drag. My son goes “Dad, he’s pulling the boat” I tell him I know and that I will need to play him out for a while before we will even try to get him to the boat. This goes on for awhile and finally he circles into some lily pads, I horse him out of them but too late, the damage is done. He makes another run and spits out the hook. We just look at each other. Man did I want that one back. Now this was not some monster Northern, I only got a glace at him and my son saw him much more than I, but I have caught some fish before and I would give a guess of a 6 to 10 pound fish. We keep working the bay for another hour with out one more bite and decide to move on to the channel just out of the bay working toward the main lake before going back to camp for lunch. Right away my son hooks and pulls in a nice Walleye – Lunch is in served! After lunch we stay close to the camp site fishing with no luck. So we swim a little and enjoy the sun as the sky darkens to the south. Our plans were to leave the next morning and head to Wasini Lake, but my son wants to know if we can stay here longer. I tell him that it is not a problem so we plan to stay another day here. The wind picks up and starts blowing a cold breeze harder and harder, long pants then jackets it is quite cool. It keeps looking like we are going to get stormed on but it passes by us, by just a few miles. South and East of us were getting hammered. We have a dinner of dehydrated Chili Mac that is quite good with some granola bars. The breeze continues keeping all the critters at bay and we watch a wonderful moon rise to end our day.