Saturday, June 16, 2012 Day 4 began beautifully. We had a nice breakfast of bagel eggs cheese and sausage. The sun rose into a blue sky and after breakfast was cleaned up we went fishing. The boys had been out earlier but with no success. Allan and I opted to work south on Tak while the boys went over to Tesaker. Allan and I trolled a bit for trout over the deep waters of Tak and then found some nice smallmouth along a western arm. At first just a few in the fourteen inch range from next to shore and then I started casting a white Senko into the fourteen to sixteen foot depth. Much better results and soon we were catching them regularly. Alan is a devoted bass fisherman and I just like to fish so we had a fun morning. The boys came back skunked and since we were getting hungry Alan and I left them the last Senko or two and headed back to prepare some of the smaller bass. I don’t remember ever even considering eating a smallmouth before by Alan guaranteed the results. These were delicious and I will eat a BW smallmouth anytime. While we were cleaning the fish the wind picked up from the south and we called to let the boys know because they were in a protected arm and they should be thinking about heading back. They had the radio turned off but within a reasonable time they appeared coming up the lake. No PFDs however which did not make me happy. Not good judgment. We got our meal in and then the main body of the storm arrived…from the north to my surprise. Just a normal, intense BW thunderstorm but one that came in waves and lasted several hours. The pictures tell the story. The weather cleared for dinner but then another storm rolled through so we did not get back out to fish. I had wanted to fish Trillium. While we were taking shelter from the storm we read and napped and listened to an update on the weather radio. Clear tomorrow but more storms on the way for the following two days. Guess what. Some may be severe! It certainly looked like we were not going to get to Finger lake on this trip. Instead we decided to head back toward the EP from Takuchmich the next day rather than dodge thunderstorms on our final two days. I was very disappointed but we made the decision together. I figured we would have to lay over on Little Loon on the way back and that is a good fishing lake. Might still catch a few walleyes. So far only Joe has put a walleye in the boat and that one was released because we had other dinner plans. This was not a great trip yet for fishing and last year was even worse due to a mayfly hatch. Now the weather. At least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Maybe it would be salvaged.