Hello readers and anglers, thank you for following my pursuit of the northwoods bass during the month of July. It was a month filled with travel and adventure. First week of July, I traveled to Rainy Lake Ontario, to fish smallmouths and multi-species with Camp Narrows Lodge, located at the northwest arm of Rainy Lake. From Minocqua, it's a 6-hour drive where one can experience some of the best fishing in all of North America for smallmouth bass, walleyes, and northern pike. Due to my balancing act of desk work and fishing work, I haven't found time to provide a trip summary, and write this year's article installments but in the next few weeks I will make it happen. After Rainy lake, for the rest of the month I enjoyed the paradise of largemouth and smallmouth bass the Minocqua region offers. Fishing in July required fishing early and late. Feeding windows varied lake by lake, however 7-9am and 6-8pm seemed most constant, even though the fishing inconsistent due to heat and many tree-knocking storms and monsoons. The heat wave we had from 7/17-7/24 took a toll on many area lakes as surface temperatures reached as high as 85 degrees. It was extreme to the point that the fir