Another day mixed with sun and clouds and more rain. Fishing continued to be slow and we began to realize that the walleye were feeding on the Mayfly hatch. They were not all interested in the leeches on plain hooks (sorry TGO), but they would occasionally strike on a crank bait or soft plastic. Brett caught his second walleye ever, 29". Whatever he was doing, he certainly had the touch.

My friend Tom and I portaged up into Fairy to see if we could find anything up there, but we got skunked. Our excitement came on the way back to Boot. We had just come to the Boot side of the 15 rod portage and had to wait a minute for another traveler to get his scratch-built cedar strip canoe up onto his shoulders before we could put in. As he was lifting his canoe, he tripped and dropped it on a rock which put a 6"-8" crack in the bottom along with a 1/4" hole. We told him he could come back to our campsite and get some duct tape and try to seal the crack. He managed to paddle his canoe back to our site without taking on too much water, and we put 4 or 5 layers on the outside and 4 on the inside. We saw him later that evening as he was returning from his day trip up to Gull and he told us that he hadn't taken on an ounce of water. Kudos to duct tape!!