Friday, June 13, 2014
We woke up at 5 am to clear blue skies and a light breeze. Everyone had a quick breakfast of coffee and toast while we broke camp. We paddled back east on Knife en route to Vera. The whole group made good time getting across the portage and we were setting up camp at site #1243 at 9:45. As soon as camp was set up we started drying some gear out from the day before as it was sunny and windy at the campsite. After a huge spaghetti lunch we headed out to fish walleyes which we have done very well on in the past. Our efforts proved to be unsuccessful as the mayflies seemed to be in the middle of a huge hatch. We returned to camp and made biscuits and gravy for supper before trying fishing for a few more hours. We fished lighted bobbers and leeches until it was dark and still didn't have any luck.
Before falling asleep we tuned into the weather radio to listen to the forecast and get a plan together for the rest of the trip. It was bad news as they were calling for more storms to pop up in the area with some pretty strong winds as well.