Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - This was a very trying day, as we fished hard all day long, and by dinner time it appeared we were going to be skunked, until we caught some fish after dinner. Twelve hours earlier, we started out with pancakes and eggs and brown sugar water (another last as I bring syrup from now on). After sitting around for breakfast, I made the following video which covers most of the previous days adventure and our disagreement about how much fun that had been.
https://youtu.be/FhLGuE-7-XM
About 10am we left camp to fish and explore the west end of the lake. We checked out the campsites on the southern shore and worked our way west to the Kiana portage (which we would take four days later). I walked the portage to Kiana while Peter caught some minnows – wished we had brought a minnow net with. We fished around the bay seeing if anything was interested while looking for the campsite listed on the peninsula that forms part of the bay. We had luck finding neither and headed along the shoreline to the north looking for more campsites. This was about 3pm in the afternoon and the winds started picking up, and the corresponding waves. This was an interesting paddle and we eventually made it to the North side of the string of Islands and escaped the waves. Once back to camp, I scouted around the island looking for birds and whatnot to take some pictures. Finally about 6pm we had hamburger, veggie, potato mix for dinner. Excellent filler to keep us going through the evening and into morning. After clean-up and hanging the food pack, we made our way back on the water and found some success with the walleyes as the sun found the horizon. Fortunately, we had decided after our trip in 2018, that it was best to eat dinner before fishing, as cleaning and cooking fish after dark was an invitation to the blood sucking flying critters, and we were not fans of those creatures. Hence all Walleyes were returned to the depths of Lake Thomas, hoping to be caught again later.