Day 2...Time to rip lips and take names. Order of the day, tubes and topwaters! We got up and had a quick breakfast of bagel/cream cheese and coffee and were on the water by 8ish. We had done well last night on Hanson, so we decided to head back down there to pick up where we left off. We picked up a handful of bass on the north end of Hanson. This time I'd have some competition as TM remembered his polarized glasses. He forgot them yesterday, and I had a field day popping bass that I could see cruising that he couldn't. After an hour or so and a handful of bass we headed down towards the West end of the big island to fish some of the rock piles in that area. We caught some more, but nothing huge so we decided to head over towards Link Lake and the Pitfall PMA. As we headed over and passed a group of Amish guys kayaking. They seemed nice enough, and said they were from Missouri. They were camped out on the East shore Hanson site and said that it was an ok site. I got a nice 18" smallie on a Heddon top water and we headed off to Link.

We were told that Link was a decent Northern Pike lake and that it also had ok numbers of Smallmouth Bass. We went up and over the quick little portage, stopped for a quick sandwich, TM caught a little buck LM, and were on a narrow stretch of water that led into Link.

We fished around the island on the north end of Link and caught a few smallish Northerns on tubes and leeches. We headed down towards the rapids heading into Link from Gift and did pretty well throwing out leeches and little swimbaits. At one point I think we went 6 or 7 in a row. Mainly smaller fish with a few bigger 16"+ fish thrown in. We were going to try to hit Bullfrog, but there were a couple decent trees over the little creek down to it that we didn't feel like dealing with. After a couple of hours fishing on Link, we heded back over to Hanson and headed onto Ester to get dinner figured out. We were having steaks - since due to the deluge from Hurricane Ester neither of us were interested in cooking last night. Steaks, mashed potatoes and peas for dinner, with Bushmills and cigars for dessert. Yessir. Other random Day 2 occurances: We returned to camp and discovered a butterfly hoarde and two rabbits with massive white paws that seemed to planning an alliance to overthrow the new camp occupants. We'll have to keep an eye on them....not that they pose a threat to....Team Tuna!

Lakes: Ester Lake, Hanson Lake, Link Lake, Hanson Lake, Ester Lake