Wednesday, September 29 We get up and go fishing trolling to the spot we fished yesterday. I had a good fish on but lost it. Once in the same spot as yesterday we start trolling again. At some point we need to retie the spoon on due to a bad tangle. I end up using 5ft of fluorocarbon for a leader where as before we used 6 or even 7ft. which made landing the fish more challenging. The 2oz. of weight tied on didn't allow you to easily get the fish close to the boat. This slight change in length resulted in zero bites and I made the change back to the longer leader.

Soon Austin hooks into a really good one. We land the fish and it measures 33-34" some photos and back in the water she went. So we've now each caught one over 30" and are both happy as can be. I hook into another one maybe as big as this one a bit later but lose it at the boat.

We decide we should head back and have a brunch. I make coffee and bacon egg and cheese on an english muffin. We laze about camp taking in the rest of the morning. We head back out and fish the narrows and only catch a few smallmouth then we head back over to ladyboot bay and troll the length of it along the west side, around the islands and then head to the campsite on the east side of ladyboot. Its a nice site and seems to not be used that often. Numerous pines have blown over onto the site taking a bit away from it but it has a great view and is likely that one doesn't see too many people paddle by.

From here we decide to get back to our island via Toe lake entering it from the south. Weve been on Toe before and wanted to see it again as well as see what this south portage looks like. We paddle up as close to the portage as we dare go, our efforts stymied by the drought and 300 yards of muck and wild rice plants.

Turned the ship around and headed back up the east side of "Das Boot" and to camp. During the paddle up and down ladyboot we picked up a few small walleyes, pike and bass. Nothing huge but still fun.