Friday, July 29, 2011

Label your luggage and belongings! Fishing is great!

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When our camp boat, the Lickety Split takes you to and from camp, you will be traveling with many other guests. Everyone's luggage and b...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The lake is everybody's way to cool off

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Brian Spillar and son, Keenan, snapped this great photo of a large cow moose wading in the shallows during a hot spell we had last week. The...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Trouble getting connected to write blog

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Once again, I'm finding it difficult to connect to the Internet to write this blog. It's taken weeks of attempts just to make this c...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Finally, seven more ruffed grouse join the world

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It seemed to take them forever but the seven eggs under our faithful mother grouse joined the world today!
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Monday, July 11, 2011

This is one dedicated mother grouse

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This hen ruffed grouse is sitting on her nest at the base of a large quaking aspen tree, right alongside a trail where we pass with the golf...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Those hokey duck lures might just work!

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Look what Ben Godin, our outside worker and fish cleaner, found in the stomach of a northern pike -- a duckling! It's hard to identify d...

Lots of trouble understanding fish limits

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We've had a rash of problems with new guests understanding Ontario's fish limit regulations. Daily limits and possession limits are ...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

The pike are big and chunky

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We have had some great pike caught and released this summer. Here angler Greg Tanko shows the camera one of the hefty pike he caught while f...
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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