On 5/30/06 4:50 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

Jay and Patty and I started out on a scouting venture in mid morning. The
object was to find some new trout water......something we'd never seen
before. Neither Jay nor I had ever fished the Silver river so we headed off
in that direction.

I presume that this is the same Silver I'm thinking of. We're usually
destined to remote points east down Skanee Road but I always slow the car as
we cross the Silver. Looks like mighty nice water.

The late afternoon was better. On the way into L'Anse to get a bite to eat

Tell me you ate at the Hilltop. Those cinnamon rolls, man oh man. And
pickled herring on the buffet...

Speaking of data points, here are mine on bothersome bugs up nort'. I've
been up there in late July, August, and September. I've never been bothered
by biting or stinging insects at any of those times, although the late July
trip there were little biting no-see-ums of some sort on the Fox. They
weren't bothersome enough to drive me off the water. The times I've been
there in late September, all of those critters were but a distant memory,
with keeping warm being a more immediate concern.

Thanks for the report Wolfgang.

Countin' time 'til September,
Bill