~ Temps overnight dipped to the mid-40s, and the day was sunny yet again. The temperature soared to the upper 70s and low 80s today. Winds were in the 10-15 mph range again with higher gusts at times.

The group made the decision to move camp down LLC closer to Agnes due to fishing most of the water around us well and figured we had combed over everything quite well. My only regret was the lack of lake trout action. One of the reasons we chose LLC was a chance for trophy lake trout, but they were not cooperating during our time up there and we did not even manage to elicit a strike. I would have fished lake trout more but without the depth finder that made it tough to eliminate water and find the optimal depths to probe. So, with this being our last day in the area we fanned out to each hit the best spots we had found over the past couple days over that area of the lake. We had a big day on the smallmouth bass fishing the bays and sheltered areas due to the wind.

For lunch we had mac and cheese with the left-over salami in it with some carrots and the last of the apples. We started tidying up camp and getting things organized to leave early the next morning. Most of us jumped in for a swim in the early afternoon and lounged around camp for a bit. Then we went out fishing for the evening. Jud and I went back to that ledge that we had found a couple days previous. We set up our chairs on the shore and fished from there. It was a great choice to rest our back sides from the canoe seat and it ended up working really well. It was nice to be able to walk around and not have to worry about canoe control or anything. We do not know the exact bottom depth and structure, but it seemed to be some sort of feeding shelf that came up to 10-12 fow. We fished mostly slip bobbers, but I cast some with some swimbaits and jig and a leech to try out some different techniques. In about 3 hours we landed around 20 walleyes or so with a decent average size. The biggest was 25”. We landed a couple of bass and 1 pike as well. Just before dark we hopped back in the boat and paddled the couple of miles back to camp.

A couple of the guys had branched out further from camp and explored new water. One canoe went almost all the way down to fish stake narrows. Everyone was able to catch some walleye, bass, and pike but it sounded like Jud, and I had done the best tonight. For dinner we had one of the bear creek soups which are always good. We were able to reflect on the last couple of days of weather, fishing, and camaraderie around the campfire. We talked through the plan for the following day and talked more about Faith and life.

Overall, our first few days were a success, but I was eager to move to try to find something better prospects and fish some new water. I was happy with our outcome overall, and everyone was able to catch a decent number of fish but just did not love the campsite and we did not really fish many of the areas that I had researched and anticipated fishing. I had figured that we would camp in fish stake narrows or at the top of lady boot bay and we were a mile or 2 North of where I had thought we would be. However, we did get to try new water and we learned a lot, but we were ready to move on and try our luck elsewhere on LLC. Total numbers from upper LLC (rough approximate for the first 3 days of the trip) 125-150 walleye (biggest 26”) 50 Northern Pike (biggest 38”) 250 ish… Smallmouth Bass (biggest 21”) only a few over 20, a lot of 15-18” fish