Friday - Caribou Island
We all woke up at 6:45am. The wind was fairly light so we decided to pack up and head over to Cariboue Island. We wanted to get a shelter, and an early start will usually always insure we get one. We were loaded up in a half hour. We idled out of Chippewa Harbor and headed along the shoreline to the east. There were 2 foot waves at our back and they subsided a bit around Conglomerate Bay. 
We arrived at Caribou Island at 8am. There was a sailboat tied to the dock and 3 kayaks near the shore as well. It was definetly occupied. We were hoping that somebody would be leaving this morning. Ray noticed that the sailboat was the same one that stayed here with us last year. The sailboat was named "Wild Fjords". It was Dan Bugge and his daughter Aurora and they from Minnesota. 
Ray spoke to the kayaking group that was occupying the shelter and they told him they would be leaving around 11pm. We unloaded our gear and placed it by the picnic table and then headed over to Rock Harbor to to get some Ice, hotdog buns, and something to make for breakfast. We made it back to Caribou and I made breakfast. we had eggs, bacon, and sausage.
Dan & Aurora were awake now and we greeted them and sat and talked for a bit. The temperture was warm and some of us decided to take a swim. Aurora had spotted a fork and spoon at the bottom of the lake next to the dock. She convinced us we should try a retrieve them since we were going in anyway. She had a snorkling mask to help us out. I was the first to try but was unsuccessful. It was just to damn cold! Paul jumped in and got the fork on the first try. He jumped in a second time and retrieved the spoon. We all just kinda hung around the dock area and ended jumping in again because of the warm temps. All four of us jumped in. We just kinda lazed around until 5:30pm. The plan was to go visit Rolf & Candy Peterson at the Bangsund Cabin. We decided we would troll over to the cabin and ended up making a circle around one of the middle passge islands. We ended up catching 3 lake trout around this little island. All fish caught on spoons and lead core line. I will be taking some lake trout home this year! 
We decided to keep fishing and headed over to a underwater hump near Conglomerate Bay. We trolled aound this area with no takers and then headed back to the middle passage island. We headed back to Caribou Island around 9pm. I idled to out to filet the lake trout, dumping the remains in deep water. I then idled back to the dock and began to unline the poles and get them all strapped together.
At sunset we walked to the western tip of the island where we discovered a shed with an old deisel generator and some dock cribbings around the shoreline. We headed back to the shelter, grabbing any good firewood we could find. We drank a few beers around the fire with the four of us and Dan & Aurora. I headed to bed after Aurora's big fire finale. Ray & Paul grabbed their sleeping bags and headed down to the dock to sleep under the stars. I tossed and turned for an hour before finally dozing off around midnight.
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