MISQUAH — Water temperature read 64 Monday morning, down three from last week, and everything I told you last week is now more so. The walleye are up on the eight-to-fourteen-foot breaks and they are eating in the morning like they mean it. Jigs and a minnow. Slow is still right but not as slow as August.

Panfish are excellent and nobody is fishing for them. Northerns are in the shallow cabbage and are hostile, which is the correct condition for a northern in September.

Saturday is the grouse opener, which changes the composition of this town for about six weeks. The rule at the cleaning station is unchanged and I will restate it: if you come in with birds and fish both, you clean the fish first, because that is what the table is for and because Harold Aas will say something.

The ramp lip on the right-hand side about eight feet down is still there. Back down the left. The county still knows and it is still on a list, and I am going to keep printing this until one of those two facts changes.

Bass Lake file: nothing new. Four entries, no fish, and two of the four witnesses have now told me they are no longer certain.