Thursday - Chippewa Harbor
I awoke at 9AM to a warm sunny morning. I noticed Ray was already off some where with camera in hand. He had mentioned the night before that he was going for an early morning hike to Lake Ritchie. He returned unsuccessful at around 10am. We have only seen one moose this trip, and we could barely see it. Last year we saw 2 moose in the first 2 hours. After he returned we had a quick breakfast of cereal and bagels. 
We headed down to the dock to do dome fishing in the harbor when the Voyager III pulled up at it's scheduled time and dropped off three passengers. There were 2 ladies who worked at the lodge. There plans were to hike from here all the way back to Rock Harbor today, a distance of about 17 miles! Impressive.
The third passager was a guy named Joe Iskrzycki. We saw him hanging around Rock Harbor yesterday. He was a math teacher from Bolingbrook Illinois. He had a canoe and 4 giant duluth bags. We helped him carry his gear to the shelter next to ours. The one that I carried up the hill was insanely heavy. After chatting with him he told us he was here for a 24 day trip. He was leaving August 1st.After helping Joe we headed back to the dock and 2 boats pulled up to the dock. They were a group of 6 or 7 people from Calumet who had just come in from across Lake Superior. They said it was smooth sailing all th way across. They were staying here for the night and proceeded to take their gear to an open shelter.
We loaded up the boat with cold refreshments and headed out to do some trolling for northern pike. We trolled the usual route along the north shoreline all the to the west end of the harbor. We had no takers so we switched to casting a small reedy bay nearby. We caught one small one and saw a whole mess of them but they were just not in feeding mode. We saw some huige fish but they were real hesitant. I was just amazed how many pike were around this reedy area. After an hour or so we gave up and continued trolling. We trolled towards to small bay near the narrows. We casted this small bay but it was the same story here, with alot of pike spotted but none that would give in to our offerings. We gave up after a half hour and headed back to the dock.
I prepared dinner and Paul cleaned up after us. I hiked to the top of the ridge behind the shelters and tried to make a phone call. It didn't go through. I would get a signal but no calls would go through. I took a twenty minute nap on the top of the ridge, and then returned to the shelter. We chatted with Jim for a bit and then shared an adult beverage with the people from Calumet, who were hanging out by the dock. The black flies were out tonight and were tearing up my dad. I started a fire in the grill and we hung around it for an hour or so. The smoke helped out with the black flies and mosquitos. It warmed up noticeably around 10pm. We all were in bed by 11:30pm.
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