Monday, June 14, 2010 We wake up to an overcast day with a bit of wind, but no rain at least. After our standard cups of coffee and a breakfast bar we set out fishing. We quickly find that it it just too windy to throw any of the lighter jigs or crankbaits or plastics we might normally use, so we both end up having to go with heavier spinners that we can cast in spite of the constant breeze. Perhaps this is the reason we are not having much luck, or maybe they are not hungry anyways, or maybe we just don't know how to fish, but other than a really nice pike my brother got we come up emptyhanded. It is a nice one though; 32" and over 8lbs. And I have filmed the whole thing with my digital camera video feature. We would rather not have him for dinner, but we bring him back to camp and leave him on a stringer just in case.
After a late breakfast of bacon and eggs we head out for a tour of the lake and a day of fishing. We get nothing, I mean nothing! After last year's luck we are a bit surprised to find there can actually be bad fishing in the bwca. We work our way up to the portage to Fairy at the northern end of the lake, which is in a weedy bay. There are a few open spots in the weeds so I throw a leech on a bobber and it quickly dives under. It was a really agressive bite so I assume it was a nice bass, but it turns out we have found a school of bluegills. We each catch enough for dinner, which is a good thing since they are the only fish we catch this entire day except for Ken's morning northern. Said northern is one lucky fish; since we return home with a stringer of bluegills he gets to live to fight another day. But we do get our anticipated fish dinner, and we didn't get rained on so all in all it was still a good first day. (note size of fillets on foil :-) )