Friday, March 28, 2014

How can this lever save you $950?

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Motor tilt control When our outside worker or myself is showing you your fishing boat this summer, pay particular attention to our spiel...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Beauty springs from dead stumps

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Doug Billings photos Did you ever wonder how beautiful flowers grow each summer from the top of stumps around camp? Somehow Br...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Our chocolate brown lake trout

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Joe Overman hoists a beautiful brown lake trout Red Lake seems to have several distinct populations of lake trout. The ones in Trout Bay...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

How high/flood water can change habitat for years

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Dead conifers turned red after being killed by high water About five years ago the lake level was in a flood stage for most of the summe...
Monday, March 17, 2014

My preferred slip knot for tying up the boat

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Here is the knot I like to use when tying boats up to the dock. It's quick to tie and unties with just a pull on the free en...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Taking stock while doing a little dock fishing

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Dee Hall tests the waters off Cabin 1's dock Sometimes it is a good idea to start every day with 10 minutes of casting from the dock...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Sit back and relax awhile

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Fred Specht at one of the many yard swings and benches  in camp. Joe Overman photo Listen to the waves' lullaby. Doug Billings pho...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Finally, Here Comes the Sun!

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Well, what do you know?  The temperatures in Northwestern Ontario, including Red Lake, have returned to normal for this time of year and are...
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Where there's weeds, there's northern pike

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Bill Baughman weighs pike with Bogagrip in weedy bay When in doubt, head to the weeds! That's always good advice when looking for n...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

KBO, as Churchill might have said

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Cork is delighted to see ground showing up through the snow at the side of the driveway Everyone I have talked with this past week, whet...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Big Canada lynx is hanging around the house

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I snapped these photos of a Canada lynx walking in our driveway out the living room windows the other day. It's the first time we...
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Story of 50-inch pike now in two magazines

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I've been told that the story of Bow Narrows angler Rob Frye's catching and releasing a 50-inch northern pike last summer in Red Lak...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Remembering Charlie Farquharson of Hee Haw

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I can never look at the snow in the moonlight without thinking of the Night Before Christmas rendition by Charlie Farquharson (Don Herron)...
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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Worst winter in nearly a century

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It has been reported that Winnipeg, Man., which is just a hop, skip and a jump from Red Lake (relatively, it's about 250 miles away), ha...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Deep snow could take a toll on deer

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The snow is now about chest height for whitetails such as this yearling As the above photo taken a few days ago at our home in Nolalu sh...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Summer, glorious summer! Please hurry!

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Beautiful sunsets at the end of beautiful days. Brenda Cieplik photo Red Lake and the rest of Northwestern Ontario can boast having the ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Clear and very cold for this time of year

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The current scene in front of our home in Nolalu, ON The temperatures in Northwestern Ontario are far colder than normal. The next two d...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Heavy snowfall could be great for spring spawning

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Ice-out at Pipestone Narrows in years past. Photo by Joe Overman I wrote a half dozen blogs back that this year's severe winter temp...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

A tall cabin under tall quaking aspens

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Cabin 9 shows off its new shutters and moose antlers This is our largest cabin, Cabin 9, which sleeps eight. It is two storys tall and h...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

The last of the famous Bow Narrows woodchucks

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Gully and Sam, both carrot eaters Cole treated Gully just like a puppy The cool sidewalk felt good to a napping Gully after stuffi...
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