On August 16, 1804, Capt. Lewis took 12 men to the pond and creek between camp and the old village and caught more than 800 fine fish, including 79 pike, 8 fish resembling salmon trout, 8 salmon, 1 rock, 1 flat back, 127 buffalow and red horse, 4 bass, 490 catfish, and many small silver fish. That day a mast was made and fixed to the boat, the party sent to the Ottoes had not yet rejoined them, and each evening a breeze rose that blew away the mosquitoes and cooled the atmosphere.