We woke up pretty early today, about 8am. That is early for us! We got our food pack down from the tree and cooked eggs, toast and outmeal. Everything was wet because it rained hard during the night. Suprisingly, the tarp we rigged up, stayed up. I tried starting a fire, it started a lil bit, but eventually burned out. Everything was too wet and I am not the best firestarter. I drank some coffee, she drank some hot chocolate. We cleaned up, made our lunches for the day and packed up camp. The portage to Lake Polly is normally not hard, but we forgot to change the pads on the yoke and this was the first time I properlly carried the canoe on my shoulders. The old pads were not pads at all. It was like metal was sitting on my shoulders. It slowly dug into my shoulders creating marks and eventually brusing them. We had to double portage, so it took awhile because those two portages combined equal at least a mile.

We got to Polly and headed to the east side of the lake because we were told the fishing was good over there. But then again it is July so finishing anywhere isn't that good. We found a nice campsite, there were some other groups we could see and hear on Polly. We were again tired, so we just paddled around Polly and tried to do some fishing, caught a baby northern and released it. Soon night came upon us, we cooked chili and had apples. Did some night fishing, caught a couple northerns, released them. Had some tea, mosquitos got bad, went in tent to bed. This night was quiet and no rain!