Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Tuesday- day trip day! We packed up our fishing gear early that morning and headed up to North Temperance Lake for a short fishing excursion. The winds picked up pretty high, and when we arrived on North Temperance, the 10+mph sustained winds out of the north were threatening to make our day miserable. We each went our separate ways to check out bays and areas sheltered from the winds. Despite the winds, it was a beautiful sunny day and the fish were much more cooperative on North Temperance- well, the little ones anyway. We caught a couple dozen bass, but only one larger than 14" and a couple larger fish lost on the way to the boat. It was however a nice change from the very slow day of fishing the day before on South Temperance. Tyler and I took some time to hike the portage to Sitka Lake, and although it wasn't as tough as some other portages I had done on other trips, I was glad to not be carrying a canoe when we did so. We also took a trip against the wind to the north side of the lake, and although we didn't have a lot of time to explore, it was a very pretty area, and I'm glad we fought the wind to see it. After riding the wind and waves south (they had by this time reached small whitecap levels), we eventually met back up with the others at the south end of the lake and headed back to South Temperance for lunch. We fished South Temperance for several more hours and the 5 of us only came up with 1 more smallmouth bass for dinner. Two smallmouth bass have a hard time stretching to feed 5 hungry guys, which led to our first much smaller dinner than we had planned. After a spectacular view both from the water and from our site of an amazing sunset, we did a fair amount of sky watching, with many stars, meteors, satellites, and even the international space station being spotted. Some beverages of choice also added to the enjoyment after a long but fun-filled day.