When you're used to wilderness mornings waking you up around 5:00 AM, sleeping in until 7:00 is an amazing accomplishment. Another morning of light on and off rain until lunchtime did not deter us from our plans for the day. We had trolled several deep water areas hoping for the ever elusive (to us anyway) lake trout and decided that Lady Boot Bay deserved that same effort. We trolled there and into the south end of the bay when the thunder started. Heavy rains quickly followed and we waited out the wind, rain, and lightning at site 155 for about 30 minutes. What once looked to be a decent site is still littered with trees from the big blowdown, and the site doesn't seem to get much use. The skies cleared up nicely afterwards, but with more storms forecast for later in the day, we decided to head back closer to camp. We did stop for lunch on some rocks closer to FSN and continued trolling as we went. We caught a few pike topping out at 28", a couple smallies, and Jaden caught his personal best 23" walleye as well, but despite our best efforts, zero lake trout. Curt did a bit better (but also no lake trout) with a few more fish than us and a 30"+ pike.

After returning from the Lady Boot Bay trek, I jumped in lake for the first time on this trip and was quickly reminded that early June and big, deep water means cold swimming. It was refreshing, but didn't last long. I found 3 more army men during my afternoon search, which was cut short by heavy rain and small hail about 4:30. Thankfully there was very little wind with this short 30 minute storm, which we found out later was much more severe in other parts of the Boundary Waters. Other storm clouds continued to roll in throughout the evening, but passed around us with no rain. We slowly packed up camp for an early morning exit from Fish Stake Narrows, followed by a short campfire.