Lake Kabinakagami fishing photos and memories, August 2002

Black bear swimming north of Burnt Island.

Our group boats on the lake.

Shorelunch is an everyday highlight.

Fishing trip memories

• First breakfast was in Gaylord, where we meet Dennis coming from his family vacation near Traverse City.
• Lois, the waitress at Giovanni’s in the Canadian Soo, remembers us from the year before.
• Rob Jr. prepares margaritas and shrimp cocktail in Wawa’s Algoma Motel parking lot, amid gale-force winds.
• The flight in to Pine Portage was the most turbulent in recent years, but the flight leaving was among the smoothest.
• We had 4 windy days, then finally 1 calm day.
• Jesse, our entertaining server, is from the Soo. She picks right up from where Jen left off.
• I caught my biggest walleye in 4 trips, 19”, at Dick’s Point. It’s just long enough to win our biggest walleye contest.
• FRS radio checks from Dennis, “Can you hear me now?”
• Charley catches the Group’s 5000th walleye. Don wins combined walleye-pike-perch contest.
• The number of retirees in the group is up to 4. Rob Sr. does what he wants, when he wants, if he wants.
• We try a new shorelunch spot, Windsor Bay, a nice site. We also used Agamick Gap and Elmer’s Island this trip. Lunches are well organized and the fish taste great as usual.
• Ira and I cast for pike with weedless lures. Ira catches three. We also tour up the Oba River to the little rapids. I catch a clam while trolling.
• We see a black bear swimming across the lake just north of Burnt Island. I got some video of the bear. We also see the usual share of bald eagles and beaver on the trip.
• Rich catches the biggest pike, 30-1/2”, west of Donno’s Island, while trolling for walleye.