May 4th, 2009: My commercial license is done! I will be legal to fly the Cessna 206 float plane with guests this summer when required but we'll still have a full time pilot on staff for the season. Having my commercial license will make things much easier with scheduling in case our pilot needs a break, gets sick, hurt or any other unexpected problems arise during the season. We flew into the lodge last week for [...]
March 18th, 2009: It's starting to look like spring up here in Winnipeg, finally we have some melting! We've had a great run of bookings over the past 10 days or so, over 30 guests have booked trips with us recently so we're very excited to see a turn around! We still have some prime dates in June that we might fill with a Tv crew to update our videos and get our name out there [...]
February 23rd, 2009: It's been an interesting couple of months here and the 3rd coldest winter in Winnipeg's history! We visited 7 different U.S. cities and even got in a little Pheasant hunt while in Des Moines and a Blackhawks game while in Chicago! The shows were actually pretty good considering the state of the economy but we've had a few groups wait until after we spent $30,000 on marketing to tell us that they're not [...]
December 29, 2008: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! The Sport shows are about to begin in a few days and we're looking forward to seeing many new and old guests in Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Des Moines and Omaha! For a complete list of our shows and a coupon, click here. It's been a cold early winter here in Winnipeg, almost too cold for any outdoor activities! I was a few flights away [...]
October 24th, 2008: The lodge has been officially shut down for about 2 weeks now and we're all back in Winnipeg starting to plan for next season. I've been working on my commercial pilot's license more and hope to have the flight test done before the new year, then I'll have the rest of winter to study for the written exam. I used the plane I've been training on to fly up to Bolton and take [...]
August 28th, 2008: We finished off the lodge season in style!! A 40 inch Lake Trout and a 47 inch Northern Pike were caught during our last week!!! The outposts will still be running for a couple more weeks and then the hunters will come in towards the end of September. The weather has been nice this week but last week it was very windy and there were a couple nasty storms that swamped boats and [...]
August 5th, 2008: I was worried that things would slow down a bit because we has such a productive May, June and July but the trophies and the numbers are still coming in strong. We were very proud to help a group beat their 20 year records (who says fishing isn't as good as it was 20 years ago??), the Hutchison group who counted every fish they caught smashed their previous total by almost 500 fish!! [...]
July 25, 2008: We've had a great run of weather and fishing again lately!! The big Pike are the main story this season and the Brook Trout would be next headline! We don't go for Brook Trout without landing a few trophies and the numbers have been in the double digits every trip. The guests who do the fly out trip for Brook Trout can't believe that we don't promote it harder but we like to [...]
July 14, 2008: The weather has been up and down quite a bit lately, today we have thunder storms with lots of lightning and some good down pours already. We've been getting the same results with our fishing as well but overall we're have our best year for trophies! The Brook Trout have almost been a guaranteed trophy any time guys have done the fly out, we're still catching trophy Pike just about every day and [...]
July 1, 2008: Sorry for the delay, just been busy! It's been a productive 11 days since the last update, over 60 trophies caught and released averaging almost 6 per day!! I think we're going to break our all time high for number of trophies caught if we keep up this pace! The Lake Trout have been better than we've seen them in 8 years, the Brook Trout have been amazing this year, we're catching about [...]