We ate breakfast and packed a bag with neccessities, lunch, and everything we would need for shore lunch. we will catch fish! All three canoes went to Hustler and we did some cast and retrieve and trolling. we were going to paddle up the North end and check out Posse lake. As we went along, the worst fisherman in our group landed a Northern, it was as if the keystone had fallen. Our luck changed from there on out. We managed a few smallmouth, but it was mostly Northern pike. By the time we

got to the campsite on the North end of Hustler we had boated 5 Northerns and several SMB. We kept one SMB and one Northern for lunch. After we cleaned the fish and were cooking them, Vince caught a NP from the campsite and we decided to eat that one as well. While that was cooking I caught another from NP from shore and threw it back. They were all decent sized NP at least 24" long. Very fun to catch and easy enough to get in the boat without a net. We never bring a net. Just a side note, the vegetarian in our group is the one who likes to smash the fish in the head with a rock, go figure.

We were tired from fishing and paddling against the wind. Adam, Greta(my wife) and Steve decided to go back to Emerald for some R&R while Rose, Vince and I kept fishing. we all piled in my SR Quetico and lesiourly floated along the lake. we caught fish pretty much everywhere. It's a good day when you lose count, isn't it? We ended up near the portgae to emerald, the sun was getting low, and we were in "One more cast" mode for about an hour while the fish kept biting. We brought back three NP for dinner, and they were perfect. There was enough that the dog got some. We all went to sleep with full bellies after a day of BWCA perfection.