: 7:15 AM. 29 degrees, wind SW, very ligt, the channel is crawling slightly, the sky is partly cloudy and the barometer predicts the same. It is a “pink sky” morning, for which I can think of no old sailors predictions.The sun is getting progressively lower on the southeastern horizon, as it should be doing. By December 22nd it will be rising over LaPointe, and then heading back north again,
I should be cleaning the chimney today, but Marv Paavola called and asked if I wanted to go fishing with him and his friend Hans, and I said "sure."
Later: it was a fine day on the water, and we caught enough fish to be fun, and to eat. Lost a couple fish, and threw one undersized trout back. I tried to get a photo of some of the action but it was too chaotic. The eagles were out in force today, a pair circling high above us for a very long time, and several others watching intently as they flew low over the boat as we reeled in fish jumping behind the boat. The large ship in the photo is the Hack Noyes, a DNR research vessel, evidently out netting lake trout for study or eggs. The other photos are of the rocky shoreline of Basswood Island, and of course this morning’s dawn.
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