Thursday, June 30, 2011

How's this for the first fish?

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Bret Crabb came up to camp a few weeks ago with his father, John, as a graduation present and this 43-inch northern pike was the first fish ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Holy cow, have we been busy!

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No, I haven't died! The total lack of blogs is only due to my exhaustion. We've been doing so much I've already forgotten half o...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

A tiny bird in the hand

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This ruby-throated hummingbird was stuck in the porch of one of the cabins last week. Our outside worker, Ben Godin, removed the bird to the...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Nothing beats a shore lunch

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John and Matt Andrews were the first anglers to have a shore lunch this year at Bow Narrows Camp. In the top photo John shows a nice pike th...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

How to convert treble lures to single hooks

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Angler Steve Kacvinsky, who fished here last week, donated to camp these two lures which show how to convert crank baits that have multiple ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Sam's home; thanks for all the support

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Brenda and Sam came home yesterday and Sam is doing well. He must stay inside for a couple of weeks, except for walks on a leash and is supp...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Frosty nights, cool temps put chill on walleye

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The beautiful warm weather we had a week before opening faded into cool temperatures and frost at night this week. Going from warm to cold a...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

We're in camp and fishing is great

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We got into camp May 10, the day the ice went off Red Lake. The weather since then has mostly been wonderful with highs in the 70s F (20s C)...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Sometimes we all look bird-brained

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My friend and neighbor, Don Melnyk, told me this winter about a perplexing experience he had years ago. Don used to work shift-work and was ...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

How do loons know when the lake ice is gone?

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Although total ice-out is still days away on Red Lake, loons will have already landed in all the open patches of water around the edges. In ...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Lakers should be on surface first couple weeks

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It's looking like ice-out on Red Lake could take place some time in the next 10 days. That would be more or less an average ice-out tim...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Man, am I hungry for some fresh fish!

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It's been a long, cold, hard winter and the one thing I can't wait to do when ice-out comes to Red Lake is to catch some northern p...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Techniques to catch Red Lake's ice-out walleye

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Walleye fishing the first couple of weeks of the season this year is going to come soon after ice-out it appears. This begs the question: ...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Red Lake, Ontario, 2011 ice-out conditions

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Even though the weather has not been balmy, the ice continues to melt on Red Lake, Ontario . The latest report comes from the blog of Enid C...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Wolves of the winter are hard to photograph

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I had my new Bushnell trail camera set out all winter here in Nolalu, hoping to get some good photos of the timber wolves that regularly hun...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

We're not the only ones who can't wait for spring

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I spotted this garter snake in Nolalu on Wednesday. He was soaking up the meager heat from the sun in a patch of ground where the snow had m...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mares tails and mackerel scales -- storm ahead

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"Mare's tails and mackerel scales make tall ships carry low sails," old seafarers used to say. In other words, a storm is comi...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Scenes like this a reality again in a month or so

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Bow Narrows angler Terry Matson sent this awesome evening photo of his son, Neil, fishing just a couple hundred yards from camp in early Ju...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Pipsissewa a beautiful forest evergreen plant

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If you get out on the shores of Red Lake, Ontario, this summer, where there is a lot of rock and moss, you will notice this striking little ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Driving beside world's largest lake

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Brenda, Sam and I came along the North Shore of Lake Superior from Duluth to Thunder Bay yesterday and as always we were awestruck by th...
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