POPULAR TRIO--Mom and two moose calves were seen by many at Tobin and Rock Harbor. Otis and Spook had to wait for the imposing moose to clear the trail just a few feet ahead of them. Many people say seeing a moose is the highlight of an Isle Royale trip. We’d rather see big lake trout, preferably backstroking in the live well.

   Our annual pilgrimage to the promised land, Isle Royale, came and went far too quickly. It always does. “Isle Royale 2010” also left the official Frostie Freeze fish team short-changed. Graciously sponsored by John Evans aboard his 31-foot “Miss Laurie”, the team tries to make a splash each year in the Isle Royale Boaters Association (IRBA) two-day fish tournament.
   The top headline above, swiped from Jimmy Buffet’s song, “Woman goin’ crazy on Caroline Street”, says it all. We were in a frenzy, nearly blown right off the island for three of the three and a half days of fishing we look forward to all year. They say Lake Superior makes her own weather. Between Wednesday, July 14, and Saturday, July 17, Mother Superior cooked up a continuous 25-35 knot pot-boiler. The seas were riled with winds approaching 40 miles per hour. We fished anyway.