If you go to idofishing I’am giving away a free one night stay’
Our daughter Missy landed her first walleye through the ice yesterday.Thers a pic on our faceboook page cookies on upper red lake.
We have are florida house open for the weeknd as well as are budget sleeper. 225 for florida and 125 for utah per night

dave and sarha are staying in florida and had one when I saw them early yesterday afternoon. tony boy and his wife went home with 4 and a memory of losing the big one. 2 locals had there 4. I set mark up where I vacated and they had landed 5 with 3 being keepers. 2 previous customers had 3.
Dillon helped me moved idaho yesterday and we will be moving minneota later today.

Another weekend bites the dust.
Florida and montana were out at the end of the road and the fishing was not very good.With a total of 5 keeper walleyes caught plus a lot of little perch. Tonybay and I will be moving them later today.
california did the best with 8 keepers a nd some bigger fished released.
kellie and I fished minnesota saturday eve and part of sunday with kellie getting her 4 plus losing a big pike at the hole.
idaho landed a mid 40s pike and that made there trip.
Utah was used a a place to sleep for frank and tyrk as they spent alll day saturday on the center bar. Frank got 18 fish and turk got 5.I spent part of the weekend helping Jake get his van going The carlsons went home with 10 keepers but Jake gave them 3 and I gave them two. Tony and Nev did the best going home with 8.

we still have three sleepers open for next weekend? Where are all the fishermen?

All our houses caught fish this weekend with old minnesota and florida doing the best,. It was good to see Jill and her crew again as well as Tom amd his brothersLleonard and Mike. They ate 8 fish sunday night. Wow what a meal that must of been. dave and dawn fished montana and took home 5 keepers Dave would not keep anything under 14 so he took home 5 nice fish.

lee and his crew arrived saturday night, Some were ataying until monday and some were staying until tuesday with Lee staying tell wednesday. They had a blast and Dan said it was one of the funnnest weeknds he has ever had. Top 20 in his words. It was just not the fishing but the comraderie they shared over the two nights. They ate like kings and laughed the asses off.
lee own the mystry dinner theater in mpls. and can be very funny. He satyed a extra day to help me move house. They went home with 18 fish . lee and I fished yesterday morning and had some good fishing landing 5 keepers losing a couple and landing a fat 23 incher. Lee was able to take his 4 home all between 15 and under 17 inches. I let him drive the red baron while I drove blue thunder he said he felt like a little kid that always wanted to drive the big red truck.
If you ever get a chance you should take in one of his shows. very entertaining and well worth the money to get a great laugh or two

We now have all our sleepers on the lake. Jim Sten and Adam in montana had a big pike on today that tangled 4 lines and still escaped.
Ben and Shana had two keepers tonight and have missed a few with shana catching her first ever walleye a 20 incher, The big news is Ben proposed to her last night in old minnesota and she said yes.
Brian and his buddies landed a 34 inch pike in Idaho.They have caughten a few walleyes but all have been to big.
I would like to move minnesota and idaho tomorrow. To give them two groups one more chance before they head home wednesday.
New years we just had two house being used. the weather could not have been much worse and the fishing was so so with saturday a little better then friday.
We still have plenty of opening and I will keep moving the house th eintire season

we will be updating our web site soon with pricing. For now our deluxe house are 225 per night with a 20 % discount sunday through thursday

We now have california and utah on the lake. Utah is our budget sleeper this year.
Steve and dan were our first customers and spent the afteernoon and evning in california. they end up landing a few fish but by no means did they pound them. I went out there yesterday morning and landed a 21 inch pike a 9 inch perch and a fat 16 inch walleye that I thought was close to 18 for sure.
All the other house are now out of the woods waiting untell the last minute to hit the lake. Kyle landed a 21 inch walleye monday night and thats pretty good for a 8 year.
Tony boy has been doing some scoutting for me. He has found a couple spots that have produced a fish right awaay but then nothing. he takes off today.
i have allready moved california and tony was going to spend the night out there last night. Utah is just out there and has not been fished as we will save it for our customers on monday.
This year I was going to start out just in front of our place but westwind moved quite a few houses out there yesterday.
I also thought about putting a house or two on the cribs but another outfitter said thats where he is headed today.
We will keep measure the ice and looking for theat honey hole as the season get under way

I see westwind now has a few day house out . I open up my lakeshore today so I can start to pre stage the houses. There was activity at both westwind and hillmens as areas were prepped to pre satge sleepers.
Westwind has a great set up and top off all there propane as they take them onto the lake. Sure beats my meathod of lugging those 100 pounders in and out of the truck and on to the fish houses. I plowed just a bit out onto the lake to make room as I pull all the houses out of the woods. Kellie the wife sure is looking forward to spending some time fishing in old minnesota as it is her favorit house. we have had some great meals and fishing in that house over the years.
We still have plenty of openings for any fishermen that want to spend some quality time here on upper red lake.

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Phil has been getting out with the kids and doing some fishing /scoutting. He has picked up a few fish but has not ventured out to far on the sled. There been a couple of small trucks on the lake but they are staying close to the dragged roads. I measuered over 10 inches of ice with 3 to 4 inches of frozen slush/snow where we drilled.
Were still hearing good fishing reports of the few that have been fishing.

Were slowly making ice. It was nice to see a little activity on the ice yesterday. There were a couple of fishermen out to the east of our shoreline and a nother out in front of westwinds. I saw no one further out then 3/4 of a mile by my guess. Tyler had a good detailed report of ice conditions and from what I read extream caution should be taken at this time. He did catch a few fish by the way.I still have not ventured onto the lake. Maybe by next weekend I will wet a line but its not on the top of my priority list at this time. I still beleave in letting mother nature take her course and being patient. Once the houses are on the lake I will be out on the ice everyday for the entire season. The reservation have started to trickle in but we still have plenty of our houses availble . With all the competition out there I will put the quality of my deluxe houses up against any on the lake.