Monday, June 18, 2012

Our first full day starts off cloudy and a bit chilly. Here we are enjoying a cup of coffee before heading out for our morning fishing.

We have fallen into a pattern these last few years of getting up with the sun and having a quick cup of coffee before heading out for a couple hours of early morning fishing. My brother catches a smallish sized northern, and we each catch a couple of halfway decent smallmouth along with a bunch of 6" to 8" sized smallmouth. Not a great morning fishing, but at least we didn't get skunked. And as a bonus the sun even comes out for a while as we head back to camp to make breakfast.
After a breakfast of bacon and eggs, we head back out on the lake to spend the day fishing. For most of the day we have pleasant weather, although the fishing is lackluster at best. But then the day's weather takes a turn for the worst, as illustrated by these two photos.
This heavy downpour was intense, but luckily brief. Less than an hour later the skies cleared up enough for us to clean our fish and have dinner in the bright sun! Here is my brother cleaning his first ever northern, something I have yet to try. He had researched how to do it before the trip, and succeeded quite well in getting 5 nice fillets off this small to medium sized northern.
We headed out after dinner for some evening fishing, with the usual results.
After returning to camp, I took a sequence of sunset photos which I believe is mandatory for all bwca visitors.