After a lazy morning around camp, we headed up to Curtain Falls for a day trip late morning. The falls are spectacular, a truly impressive piece of nature. I feel very fortunate to have been able to experience that, and the fact that I am lucky enough to have friends who entertain my designs of seeing cool things and putting in a lot of work to see them is not lost on me. Curtain this year and Basswood Falls last year are two things that I will remember for the rest of my life.

Despite being a warm afternoon, the fishing at the falls was HOT. It was like fishing in an aquarium. Between the three of us, we probably lost 20 ned rig setups in the rocks at the falls, but that was a high risk-high reward endeavor as we caught our traditional 3 walleye for our appetizer and started putting everything back. I switched over to the fly rod since I had caught some nice fish just to see what I could get on that and caught a nice smallie on the fly, my first ever. After an hour or so there, we decided to venture back to the campsite. The wind had picked up considerably, so it was a longer paddle back.

Back at camp, we fileted the walleye and had an appetizer. We were so full that we didn’t end up making the dehydrated chicken and just had a quick mac & cheese dinner. I got an update on my Zoleo from my wife that there were some storms in the area so we battened down the hatches and prepared for a night of storms. My Amok was a bit disappointing as the wind was blowing some rain in despite me having everything as low as I could have it. We rode out the lightning and made it through to the other side in one piece.