Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ~ Temps overnight dipped to the low to mid-40s, and the day was sunny and calm yet again to start. The wind started to kick up more by mid morning into the 10mph range but nothing too difficult to manage

The group made the decision to chase after some trout today to switch it up. 5 of us wanted to get out early after the trout and the other 3 stayed in camp. This made the logistics a little difficult but we managed with 3 in one canoe. We had a fun morning catching a couple different species of trout in various lakes in the area. We got started at sunrise to chase after some brook trout. In hindsight we should have been there even earlier but we still caught some and did pretty well. Caught a couple dandies and one of our party fished some with his fly rod which was cool to see him do. (I have always wanted to learn and try but I never have.) We caught around 10 brook trout in a couple hours during the morning before it shut off. Then we hopped over to a different lake and chased some lakers. The wind was rolling at a decent clip by mid morning which allowed for some good drifts to vertically jig lake trout but we were going a little fast to maintain consistent borrow contact with some of our baits. However, we were able to manage about 15 lake trout in a couple hours of fishing time with the 2 canoes.

We headed back for lunch around 12:30 as we did not want the rest of the crew to start worrying about us and we had not left them with really any directions for the meal or what the rest of the day would look like. The group relaxed around camp a little bit and we had our big meal of the day of teriyaki chicken stir fry. I premake and prep all of the meals for our group. The dehydrated vegetables are a little chewy but pretty good overall. A few guys napped and I read my Bible for a little while and took a half hour hammock nap. I took Jarred in my bow for the evening of fishing and we did pretty well. Between the 2 of us we caught around 15 walleye. A little slower night for the entire group only catching about 35 walleye total. A couple nicer fish caught tonight with a couple in the mid 20” range with a 24 and 25” one caught tonight. The bite was really good when it was cloudy and a little breezy but when it calmed down the bite shut off. The bite was weird like that all week the prime time was not that prime. The best bite whether it was 2pm or 8 pm was when it was cloudy or a little bit of ripple on the water. Clouds and wind always help the walleye fishing so that was not strange but the prime time hours did not seem to uptake the fish catching rate and no sort of flurry at that time like “normal” walleye fishing. However, with the trout earlier in the day we did not mind too much. Beautiful day and it was fun to try some different tactics, chase varied species, and improve our methods today. More time around the fire with some hot drinks and some story telling. In the group we have 5 guys that work for the DNR and most of all the guys are avid outdoorsmen so some really good stories from the jobs and crazy stories of some folks.