I awaken this morning at 6:15 am to the sound of wind and rain. I turn over and go back to sleep until 7:30. I put on my rain gear in the tent, and exit to have a breakfast of grilled bagels with butter and strawberry jam and a nice hot cup of coffee. My foot is even more tender today, but a few Aleve and I will be okay! I am resolve today to go fishing! I launch the canoe at 9:00 and paddle into the 10 mph wind coming from the northwest. I reach the west side of Lake Agnes where I start fishing somewhat protected from the wind. I paddle the bank casting spinners, topwater baits, and gitzits and manage to catch a smallmouth or two, hook a couple and lose them, and have a walleye follow a bait right up to the boat before hitting ( wasn’t a northern, I know the difference) I could see the marble eyes clearly before it swam away. I reach the rapids above the 24 rod portage into the boulder river and manage to catch a 30 inch northern out of the rapids on a gitzit, but no walleyes, or smallies. I walk across the portage on a sore foot and see more rain coming. I head back to the canoe and start the paddle back toward camp, dropping a pocket knife in the rapids as I was paddling up stream… A lesson learned, put things up when you are finished with them!! I catch a few more fish before the rain set in heavily and just paddle on back to camp, empty the water out of the canoe, put everything up and head to the tarp. It is 2:45, I have been gone longer than I think! I have lunch and start to journal again. I am again joined under the tarp by the squirrels and a chipmonk looking for food. Under the tarp I notice my coffee cup where I store my sugar and creamer is moved… the squirrels have been at it and have chewed the lid up pretty good!! I grab a wood chip and let fly at the nearest one. It runs off only to return and stand defiantly in front of me… Little Devil!!  The afternoon passes into evening and I have resolved to stay here now that my foot is really starting to hurt! Paddle up to Bottle Portage Thursday morning, tell my friends that I will not be going on with them and then come back to camp break it down and head out Thursday. I prepare my dinner of 3 cheese totilleni, my favorite meal so far as my friends from across the bay come over and we talk for a while, they are doing a day trip tomorrow to the Boulder River to fish and want to know if I want to come with them! I tell them I will, as we both paddle off to fish a little before dark, as they leave they tell me they are having a fire tonight if I want to come over and visit. After an hour of fishing the rain starts again and I head to camp, for an early night following my normal procedure, and the rain is falling lightly again as I drift off to sleep!