Yes dear reader as so often happens here at Sportsmen’s Camp the lake temperature will be higher than the ambient air temperature (thats tempeeechur for residents of Mogadore) and a haze or fog will form over the lake. It also seems to happen, consistently I might add, when the Walkers are here. I am still not quite sure of the nature of this phenomenon but I do my best (from a purely scientific perspective) to investigate its causation fully. Part of the research entails examining the pictures taken over the past week. Most are not blurry or foggy, but – for the life of me – I don’t recall taking them. The pictures also seem to have very odd subject matter. I sent this last batch to HAL at Starbase Bryson and he’s doing a spectrographic analysis. He was a little cranky about it though muttering some nonsense about “beer haze” and “beer goggles with bifocals” – I’ll probably remove a few of his upper cortical function modules and degauss them with a ceramic magnet when I get back home. But anyway I’ll post two of them here so our reader can posit the situation or at least suggest a likely elucidative caption.

One of the theories floating around camp is that Billy fell asleep whilst smoking in one of our older wooden boats.

But there is still much to report. We (Pat, Carol, Gil, Joyce, Baxter,and Bart included) made a trip to the Mond and caught a lot of fish. But there will probably be no more people getting into that lake this year. The entire Grassy river system is down about 3.5 to 4 feet! It was a very difficult push into the lake, what with all of the Evil Janeeto’s – of planet Janetron – bitching and moaning and the low water levels. I would stay with the idiomatic “pissing and moaning” but Janet has raised the art of pissing to new level so I will stay away from that. I had a great time and the fishing was delightful but when the other participants recount the trip they will probably dwell on “Oh it was so hard to walk in the bush and the mud was soooo deeeeep and…” Wa wa wa what a bunch of fucking babies!

I also went up to Sinclair lake a couple days back with the Walkers and it was absolutely amazing to see all the structure high and dry. The drop in water level there appeared to be a good clean 4 feet! You could walk around the lake if you wanted to! But the fishing was still good and the newly exposed rocks on the shore line were gorgeous.  The boat launch at Sinclair was very easy with a 4 wheel drive truck but the launch at Loonwing was about 100 ft away from the water.  We caught several pike, many pickeye or wallyerels, and the bass are now firmly established in the southern grassy system. It occurs to me that any trips to outlying lakes should be investigated prior to packing the boat up and travelling there this year.

The may-fly hatch appears to be concluding. The green drakes were heavy on the water the last few nights so it is possible that the early July guests will experience some of the best fishing of their lives – sans mayfly. The lake temperature is about 73F but we have some cool nights predicted for the coming week but as long as the days are mostly sunny the temps should stay pretty constant.