Not a whole lot to report on the fishing as most of the resorts and outfitters have been trying to make new plans. 2 days were spent up here getting too wheel houses, followed by rentals. The red baron and blue thunder had there first major workouts of the year. Have not heard yet but red baron may of blown a radiator hose last night. We took blue thunder up to David’s to try and thaw out in his shop over night as I have never seen so much ice on her. Should of took a picture. Even though it set all night she still had ice in the back.
It’s really hard after 18 years to not be able to be out there improvising, going from plan A to plan B all the way to lets start over. I did talk to one of my best friends Billy aka The Greek as Grandma Olga nick named him about my concussion? He mentioned I need to also rest my brain, which makes total sense. Other then its really hard to when every thing you have work for all these years is out of your hands. Jonny boy and richy rich have been doing a outstanding job. But this storm created quite a few problems I have not even experienced. I did get out there the 31rst to see for my self. From what I saw a good mile by mile where the majority of the wheel house and rental were is probably shot for the year. All the drifting created a lot of weight . I will be so relieved to know or see all 8 rentals safely on new ice completely away from that area. We have been canceling reservation day by day so far. If all plans go well we may be in operation today with one house being used as a day house for Tom and his crew. Then Pat and his crew will be up today using Kentucky as a cabin possibly fishable? Rick and his crew will be up Friday morning for north dakpta followed by Bradly staying in Colorado.
As far as I know Hillmans is still closed to all wheel houses and traffic.
Each resort is dealing with there own problems. Flooding, making new routes etc . It would be nice to take a cruise on each resort to see how each one has improvised. That is out of the question as driving is out for now. As the Greek mentioned that is not resting my brain.
Buddy Hillman purchased a tractor with a snow blower to re open his road, which is a first for me to see on his road, It will be interesting to see how its working. From the sounds of it she was throwing snow last night.
Our grand daughter Ashley has been up here before the big blow , she rode out the storm on the lake in California. It nice to see her step up and help where she can as she a has always been a good helper. She was nice enough to gather garbage, retrieve frozen in extension cord s etc., She also shoveled a path for our garage. That’s it for about now as I need to rest my brain.