I hear ya about the swimming. I don't swim in these lakes we just came out of. between the fresh water baracuda & the jumbo snapping turtles, no way in hell.
A gang of rouge snappers raided our camp stringer while me, Pam & the boys were over in the next lake fishing northerns & the girls decided to stay back at camp. They were playing cards when they heard the noise from the stringer along the shore. they spotted trouble instantly. They played tug of war with the turtles for a bit & came out with half fish on a stringer, so they used the remaining fish to bait the turtles back up & they messed with them a little, no fingers were lost so I guess it's all good.
We saw lots of big mean snappers & the above fish in the pictures is a trophy in many books but probably par for the course in those lakes.
No swimming for me, I brought a shower bag in this time. Shower bag very good.
