Wednesday, August 09, 2006 We woke pretty early and hurried up with breakfast so that we could set around and relax. It is tough out there. At 10 or so we grabbed our poles and some lunch and head up to slim lake. We had plans to canoe through slim lake and into some of the ones beyond. We had brought lunch and we planning on getting in just a little before dark. All of that came to a screeching halt. We had been fishing for walleyes. I knew it was August, but that was all I had heard about, walleyes and pike. But in Slim it changed. There were small mouth everywhere. Now I know it is walleyes and pike, but if you put someone from the southeast into that kind of bass fishing I just kind of go nuts. We were catching them on anything and everything. There were some nice fish in there. Many weighing a couple pounds and more. You did catch a few smaller ones, but if they were under 12 inches or so they got slaughtered as you reeled them in through the channel. I brought 4 pike to the boat with the same 12 inch bass hooked through the lip with a rapalla. The pike would let go at the boat and I would toss the poor guy back out. I have never gotten into bass like that before. At 7 after fishing slim from one end to the other we decided to head home. What a good day.