Day 6: Haven Lake Thursday dawned sunny again, and we just couldn’t believe our luck with the weather this week. Yes, we dealt with a strong-at-times east wind all week, but we hadn’t seen a raindrop since our first day and this morning was looking no different, except there was no wind at all. We ate and got out on the glassy lake, and started really getting at the walleyes. This was the first trip that I brought a GPS, and I could mark some rock humps and we would just jig and cast all around them. Several double hookups were had, and we had all three boats together at times, and there would be three guys with a fish on at once. We split up and then met again at lunchtime, where Greg and Steve came back telling us of an excellent and large rocky area where they were found walleyes stacked up. We headed there after lunch and what followed was the finest afternoon of walleye fishing action-wise that we have ever had. I would say conservatively that we boated over 150 that day, but again all were in that 15-19” range. The largest we caught on Haven was just over 20” but the action was so good it almost didn’t matter. I surmise that the population dynamics are such in that lake that some thinning of the herd needs to occur. We fried up one walleye each for our “happy hour” snack, and enjoyed fresh fish that had been caught just 20 minutes earlier, while recounting our great afternoon. Later on, we saved a few more for fish tacos that we ate with the last of the grilled peppers. As darkness set in, Brian had headed down to check that everything was out of the canoes before we turned in, when he called us down there. With his LED headlamp on, something had caught his eye in the water. It was the glowing eye of a walleye, and we all went down there to check it out. With our lights all on, we could see probably 20 or 25 of them swimming around with their eyes like glow in the dark beacons. I had never seen anything like that: walleyes swimming just under the surface on a glass-calm night. At times, one would turn and look right at you, so you could see both eyes at once. We put on some topwater baits and tossed them just to see them strike, and sure enough caught a few more. It was a special memory of this year’s trip.