Friday, May 26, 2023    Heading out this AM and trying for Oyster. Couple 300 rods. My plan is to portage canoe and ALICE until the canoe can no longer bear it. We'll see. Beautiful sunrise across Lynx, pointing almost directly to the first portage. Nice landing near a big, uprooted tree. Picturesque.    Successfully doubled the first into Ruby. Two females on the portage, one my age and the other practically sprinting with the canoe and pack, much younger. Go girls. Ruby is a cool little lake with one site... looked buggy, but so does everything else. Headnet is in place and I'm getting very comfortable with it. Figure by tomorrow I'll be able to drink and spit through it. Portage between Ruby and Hustler is unremarkable save the sunken remains of a boat dock/artifact.    Hustler is a beautiful little lake in my opinion and my first time on it. Almost considered stopping there as all the sites were empty, but the vision of my first lake trout was strong. Spoke briefly with two other soloists going the other way. Both cranking their double blades, said they'd been up in LLC.    Portage from Hustler into Oyster was long. Nothing dramatic, but long. Canoe only made it halfway before being unceremoniously dumped. Got out the Gravity works at the first Oyster turnaround and set to filtering some water. It's hot...and buggy.    Made Oyster around 1300. Those two portages about did the job. Talked with a couple gentlemen in a tandem, both of us vying for the lee to get out of the wind. They'd just caught two lakers! Silver Rattletrap in about 15ft. Guys informed that all the sites on the deep side were taken, save the one on the peninsula . I took it and gave thanks.    Plan is to stay on Oyster a couple nights, so breaking out the big yellow tarp, again with tips and tricks gleaned from this forum. Worked great. Abandoned cordage here too which I'll put to use hanging my Gravity Works.    It's hot, really hot for this time of year. Probably go sans under quilt. Black flies are everywhere and have no respect for Premetharin. I see a couple Tylenol PMs in my future.