I was up Aug. 14-21 and had a great time. That week is so different from the rest of the year in a very good way. I enjoy, it, remember it and anticipate next year throughout the next 51 weeks. However, I seem to be trying to prove that it still takes some people 10,000 casts to catch a musky. I was close on 3. I thought I had a piece of weed on my bucktail and didn't finish with a figure 8 and as I lifted it out of the water a fat 40" class fish came out after it and actually slammed the side of the boat. I also had a similar sized fish make an aggressive follow but my figure 8 was weak and it swam away. Had a 30 inch class fish come all the way out of the water on a creeper and somehow missed it which is surprising to me for such a slow moving bait. 5 pike in the low 20's did their best musky imitation hitting bucktails so that was fun, but just seeing aggressive musky out of no where is exciting and will have me back next year. I tried to play the percentages with proven lures (ghosttails, pacemaker, creeper mostly) on proven spots (bars and points with good weeds on the east side including classic spots like pete's), but my obvious figure 8 weakness hurt as did marginal boat control (drift fishing, no trolling motor, resort rental). I am always open to suggestions and enjoy the information shared here.