We took off on a Tuesday evening and drove up to Portage WI and stayed the night at a hotel, then hit the road fairly early the next morning. The weather was iffy for our entire trip, but the day we arrived it was pretty darn good. We ended up heading to the north end of the lake to do some fishing and eat at Pogo's on the water. Although Carrie didn't catch her first fish, we still had a great time ( I caught more than I could handle :p )
The next morning we hit the water again and Carrie caught her first ever Northern Pike, and it was a monster! Well, not really, but still exciting:
That afternoon the rain came so we pulled out the cards and I whooped up on Carrie, like usual. This was the last time she smiled that day.
On Friday my parents came up for a few days of relaxation, so when we got good weather on Saturday we hit the lower damn area for some more fishing. Carrie hooked a nice fish, but it ended up being a sucker! 
I caught the big fish of the day, a monster rock bass!!! Check him out...hint, you might have to look close:
On Sunday evening Russ and I headed to Lake Pokegama and caught about 35 fish in the rain over a 3hr period. One was a nice bass I caught on my favorite spinnerbait.
One morning I ventured up to the river which is always fun, and hard work to boot. Fishing was slow, but I did catch the biggest northern to date, a 7lbs ~28in beast.
Russ and I did lots of work in the yard and cleaned it up real nice like. In 3hrs we managed to cut this log pile (it's two deep!)
We finished things off by burning all the brush we had cut which took 3hrs of heavy burning. The coals were still pretty darn hot the next morning too.
All in all it was a good trip. Weather was off quite a bit for early August, but that's northern Wis for ya. Can't wait to head back up next year.
