Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The gray skies that hung over our heads all day Monday were back for Tuesday. A chilly and dreary morning with highs that eventually topped out in the mid 50's was not going to stop us. We fished all morning, boating 10 and losing just as many. Jaden hit the quality fish- pike of 35, 29, and 26 all within a 45 minute stretch of trolling and casting through the areas north of our site.

While fishing around various bays, islands and dropoffs, we stopped by three different sites, including the two that were occupied the day before. Other than us, Snow Bay was now empty. Past visitors to both sites have made elaborate use of the flat rocks all around this part of LLC to create seating areas and table tops. Despite those improvements, we still thought ours was the overall best site in the area. We also couldn't but help notice just how far down water levels were, with the white pollen lines on the rocks being a full 3 feet above the current water levels. That's a lot of change over the course of a summer! At lunch we had another "first-time" meal. We brought along tuna packets and some squeeze mustard and mayo. It was a great change from our normal PB+J lunches and will definitely be used to break up the lunch monotony on future trips. We gathered up what firewood we could find, but most was either too wet or too rotten to be useful and we only ended up with enough for cooking dinner. Misty rains and sprinkles came and went over and over again throughout the morning and afternoon but got more persistent in the mid afternoon and once again drove us back to camp for shelter. We did get back out for another successful bout of fishing during a break in the weather but the light misty rain returned again in the evening and lasted past dark. Guess we didn't need that extra firewood anyway!