Woke up to a nice sunny morning for the first time on the trip. We had some pancakes for breakfast then headed out fishing for the day! Nick and I decided to try the very West part of the lake and we had a lot of success. It was still very windy though which was frustrating. In a couple hours we caught about 20 fish but again missing about 10 or so but it was a lot of fun! It still was pretty mild in the low 70s but we decided to go swimming and screw around a bit and clean up some. Most of us then decided to do some napping and I read my Bible by the lake for a while which I absolutely love doing up in the BWCA. Then Chaz woke up and asked if I wanted to go out fishing so we went out for like an hour and a half. We caught probably 20 bass between the two of us and my first northern of the trip. We were fishing our way back to camp when we started to hear some thunder in the distance and noticed the wind picking up more so we bee-lined for camp quick. We pulled all the canoes up and flipped them over and just finished tidying up camp when it started raining.

At first it wasn’t too bad but then the rain started to get heavier and heavier, then the wind started to blow sideways. Then the rain started to lessen but then the hail came for a few minutes followed by more wind. We were all sitting under the rain tarp looking out over the lake and watching the storm and it was pretty incredible with the thunder and lightning. At one point we started to get a little nervous as the clouds above the lake began to rotate and swirl but a funnel cloud never formed thankfully (although I guess there was one spotted a few miles from where we were along with a tree falling over and smashing a canoe, which would be terrible). So, it was a pretty powerful and amazing storm to watch but I also really enjoy storms. Some people might not have liked it too much. It was one of the craziest storms I have ever witnessed though and by far the worst BW one I have seen. My coach has been up there 50 or 60 times and he said he had never seen anything like it. After the rain stopped it actually got pretty calm and the clouds parted a bit for the sunset. It was a spectacular sequence of events. With the huge storm then such calm and beauty after was pretty cool. Coach Postler said that the walleyes wouldn’t bite after a loud storm and rain like that so we didn’t go out but I wish I would of. It was a nice and calm perfect night to fish so I wish I would have gave it a go. I understood his logic though and we might not have caught anything it was just our only calm night. We just relaxed the rest of the night and made a delicious supper of rice and fish. We sat around the fire and sipped some cocco and cider and told some more stories and relived the glory days of high school track.