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Once again a clear calm night with the coldest temperatures of the trip. It was 46 degrees in the cabin when we got up. We delayed our departure until 1000 in order to let the outside temperatures rise. And once again we had NW winds on the nose, but this time they were only 12 knots. We made it into Otter Head Cove at 1330, anchored, had lunch and then put the dinghy down to fish. In 2005 Bob Sanderson and I had great success here especially Bob with his 20-25 pound pike, but today I only had one strike and Kevin had a good sized fish on that broke his line. I guess this cold weather has adversely effected the fishing. On the way back to the boat we stopped by Aeron who had been with us in Brule and Ganley and preceeded us into Otter Head. The folks on board, David and Anna Armstrong, were also complaining about the cold and were trying to decide whether to continue heading north or to turn back and head for their warmer home waters of Georgian Bay. The forecast for tomorrow is good and then it turns ugly for several days. We have decided to make a 50+ NM trip to the Slate Islands tomorrow and either hunker down in Pike Bay or make the short trip to Rossport the next day depending on the actual weather.