Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Ahhh Sleep in day! The other guys got the sunrise pictures today. Have I mentioned the last two days of weather had been awesome beautiful and today was looking even better. Blue skies with an occasional cloud here and there. Temps where mild 70s -80s I eventually got out of the hammock and grabbed my fishing tackle, Had some rocket fuel coffee and rigged up the poles. I'm gonna catch some fish today. It's our first real chance after 4 days of trekking. I need to get SOMETHING after getting skunked last time. Still in my pajamas, I go to the shore and cast into the small bay off the side of the rock. Bam a smallmouth bass nails the lure on the first cast. I cast a half dozen more and get nothing. Time for breakfast and more coffee. Then back out to cast some more. BAM first cast and a 22" Pike hits the same lure! Didn't get any pictures but sent him back to grow more. I did a few more casts then figured it was a good time to get out of my pajamas. It was warming up to another great day. Though it looked like the wind was kicking up a bit. We lazed around and got all our gear dried out. Had some lunch and went for a nice swim. I brought my old scuba mask so I could look around and find some lures. Yeah right, I couldn't see more than 2 feet! That's more wasted extra weight that I won't bring again. We decided to canoe fish and got everything together. Only took an hour or so. Went to the other side of the island where there was a good deep channel that was supposed to have walleye. The afternoon wind was kicking in and we got blown all over. Didn't any kind of anchor with us and gave up after half an hour. Total people/groups seen. Just those three guys again out fishing. And some people across the lake in a campsite.