A day of fishing I will never forget.

In the morning we went to the SPOT and caught a bunch of nice smallies, then I caught what I thought was a small fish when all of a sudden my line peeled off like never before, pandemonium had hit the canoe, I fought it for several minutes then slowly I saw the bobber coming up when the line zipped parallel to the canoe when I realized the 10" bass was swimming sideways, then I saw her, she was well over 40" and had t-boned the bass, and after a couple more exciting minutes she let go, and I won the battle I caught that 10" bass, every shredded inch of it.

Then we took a little side trip to Gull Lake saw a few deer one of which it appeared to have been driven crazy due to the bugs it was jumping, twitching and trying to hide in the lake. We caught one 7" perch.

We headed back to camp but not without dropping a line at the SPOT, I figured we could catch a couple of smallies for lunch, we ended up catching walleyes and smallies one after another, when I caught a nice walleye about 17" as I was staring at him as I was bringing him in, when here she came from underneath the canoe and WHAM! she was back! and tried to steal my fish again and I managed to get that fish back. WE now call that pike SPIKE the PIKE due to her tenacious, carnivorous attitude. After we caught our lunch we headed back to camp, fresh walleyes nothing like it.

After lunch and a nap, I was ready for another battle at the SPOT, and it all went according to plan. The walleyes and smallies were cooperating, Lora caught the fattest 19.5" smallie I ever saw, she is quite the fisherwoman. Then to my disbelief, it happened again SPIKE was back, we must be sitting on her hunting grounds she attacked a 15" walleye but this time she gave up after 20 seconds, I guess she learned her lesson, nothing steals my fish! After a great day of fishing, we had dinner and watched the local engineers at work, started a fire, relaxed and prepared our minds for the next days travel.