Sunday, August 13, 2006

2:00am the rain started and it didn't really stop until 10pm Sunday night. There were small breaks through out the day and evening, but mostly rain. Luckily the wind was light making it easy to get around the lake. After breakfast we head out on Polly to see if any fish are biting. The bite started out slow, but soon picked up as the rain picked up. The harder it rained, the more the fish were biting. Even though this was the day with the worst weather, it turned out to be the best day of fishing. We released many more fish than we kept. It didn't matter what we were using, the fish were very active.

A large turtle stopped by camp to check out a couple of the fish we had caught and decided he was hungry (the fish were still tied to the canoe and in the lake). With fish thrashing about the water, we realized something was trying to eat them. As we hurried down to the canoe, the turtle swam off but not before he had taken a good chunk out of one walleye. He later returned to see if there were any left-overs, but he left disappointed.

We were able to get a small campfire going during one of the breaks in rain and it actually lasted for a time. Then the rain returned and eventually got the best of the fire. Even though everything was wet, we had a very good day of fishing.