Well, cabin fever has hit and we're entertaining ourselves by watching, rewatching, and watching again clips we took from our Isle Royale trip. Hubby has put together a montage of his favorite pike hits on a topwater bait on Lake Richie. They had a great day fishing and caught 32 pike. Video link ...

Thanks fredly, Donk_67, and MattC for the kind comments! Wishing we were going back for a return trip this year, hopefully next year!

Hi NancyT! The footage is a combination - GoPro and a Kodak Play Sport for the video, and Canon T2i and Canon T3 for the photography. In the future I'll use my T2i for some video too! I took a 15-85mm and 55-250mm, and I believe the other camera had a 18-55 and 70-300? Very nice equipment but ...

Hey jimh, Only one 12inch pike was lifted from Lake Mason and returned - they couldn't get to the spots they wanted from shore. And no, not a botanist but I do work with native plants. I like identifying what I see. Many I knew, the rest I looked up. Thanks, it was fun to put this together ...

Midwest Ed - Thank you for kindly letting me know that! I'll make a note in the video comments…and try to figure out how to edit in the video too. I'm a stickler for accuracy ;) I still would have been tempted to "borrow" that fabulous canoe to see Edisen though - just kidding of course but I wouldn' ...

We were fortunate to make the trip to Isle Royale for the first time last August. Our route was the North Shore to Grand Portage, across on the Voyageur II to Windigo, and then around to our start at Rock Harbor. There were drop off stops at McCargoe Cove, Belle Isle, and the Tobin Harbor mail call ...