Monday, September 06, 2021 I really wanted to try to make a day trip to Buck Lake to catch some walleye and pike, because research had told us that Cummings had nothing but bass (which is what we discovered). We headed out around 9am from camp and paddled all the way to the west end of Cummings. It took us longer than I had planned, and I knew right away that if we wanted to get to Buck and back in a day without being totally spent, that we should have left sooner in the day. We were not looking to set any speed records on this trip so we decided to fish at the rapids going into Otter Lake instead . It had been apparent all around us that the lake levels were a good 18-24" below normal. And when we arrived at the Otter Lake rapids that was very apparent. The rapids were merely a trickle of water amongst a field of boulders. We fished Otter Lake from shore for a good 15 minutes with no luck. But then we began pulling in smallmouth and largemouth one after another. We had a quick lunch and then paddled back to camp getting back around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. We relaxed and prepared for the impending thunderstorm that night.