Ge-Be-On-E-Quet, Green, Rocky, Oyster

Today was a nice easy day with only a few portages. We made decent time and got to Oyster at around noon or one or so. We picked the first site into Oyster, nice that it had shore on both sides, and good open space for tents. We all decided to enjoy a nice swim on the side of the larger part of the lake after setting up camp to cool off a little bit.

After swimming, we went out in search of some lakers, probably around 4 or 5 pm. The wind was still pretty strong, and there were white caps on the lake. We decided to let the wind troll us and see what we might get. Even though the sun was shining and it was fairly hot out, we had some quick success by trolling some spoons about 50 or 60 feet of line out, with a three-way swivel and about 3 oz of weight bringing it down. Probably had the fish at about 30 or 40 feet down. We caught two with only trolling around once or twice, 19.5” and 23” lakers.

The laker meat was new to most of us, and made for some good eating. We gutted the smaller one, and filleted and breaded the bigger one to use with our sweet and sour fish. The bones and skin come off real nice with lakers, and its almost the way to go when cooking them, although the breaded stuff tasted as good as any of the other breaded fish you eat, just maybe a little more oilier.

There were some bones we discovered around camp; a large femur, mandible and some other smaller bone, probably from a moose. That night, we had another great sunset followed by another great moonrise.