After a cool night that made for quite comfortable sleeping, we awoke to more sunshine. Today was going to be a bit breezier and we could see some whitecaps building out on the main part of Brule, beyond the protection of our little bay.

After downing some more bacon and eggs for breakfast we wanted to get some fishing in. However, the wind was going to dictate that we either try this again from shore or stay close to camp in our bay. It wasn't long before the breeze was making even the bay fishing a challange from our canoes. Though there wasn't much for waves, there were wind gusts that would move us around and make it hard to hold any kind of position. Even the rocks we had tied on as an anchor had a hard time holding us still as the wind would drag us along to deeper water where the rock was no longer on bottom.

After several hours of this and no bites to show for it, we abandoned this plan to break for lunch. When finished eating we spent some of our wind-bound time exploring the many interesting trails that extended from our site. One of these pathways took us to another part of the lake where we could really see the waves crashing ashore. We were grateful that we had safe haven at our site and that we were not having to navigate to somewhere on Brule in these conditions.

Later in the afternoon we noted that the wind had significantly subsided so we formulated another fishing plan. The day before, when we had been in Brule Bay on the very east end of the lake, we had thought it looked promising for smallmouth bass so we targeted that area to see if any of them wanted to join us for dinner. While the fishing was not fantastic, we were able to boat a few--at least enough to supplement our freeze-dried menu items.

With these fish secured, we returned to camp to start on supper. The bass turned out to be the perfect compliment to our Ready Wise lasagna and Camp Chow corn. As with the previous evening, a pleasant campfire and a bit of burbon finished off what had been quite a different day from the first, but a very enjoyable one just the same.