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.

Mother nature has not delt us a good hand at this time. With the lake snow covered the ice willl be a slower process. A few have ventured out on to the lake but I have never been one to push the envolope on early ice. When I say venture its on a sled and close to shore. I beleave all the resorts busted up the stacked ice on there shorelines to help freeze them down better. It will be somtime before any vechicle even think about heading out in my opinion. We have dodged some snow the past weeks since the lake glazed over. I ttok the dog for a walk in the woods sunday and I was surprised how much snow was out there. Thats all for now but antone venturing out on any lakes please be carefull

Tis the season. The time has come agaian as we prepare for the up and coming ice season. Mother nature has already sent a message that she is the boss. With the lake snow covered protecting the ice we willl be in a wait and see as what type of ice conditions we have this season. Everyone with a road has some extra work as some ice piled up along shore before she glazed over.
Pulling my houses off of our shoreline will also be a extra chore.
We will be running 5 sleepers and one day house this year. As in years past i will do my best to keep the houses in fishy areas and try and have the house on fresh ice every weekend. After 10 years I still have not figured out how to leave a house in the same spot for over a few days. Oh well thats not a big deal as I enjoy working on the lake and moving the houses is part of my job. I also enjoy when the customers help move a house.
Thats all for now to all my previous customers and new ones to come have a fantastic thanksgiving and hope to see you this winter.

The greek,bob and luke were up this weekend.It sure was nice seing the greek as He has been in alaska all summer running his new businee Naturesventure. They had a good summer with many many halibut ,rockfish and salmon caugt. He has lodging 10 miles out of homer and does some river guiding plus has all the connections for halibut and any other adventures a guy would like to take.
Anyway with the killer fall weather the fishing turned on big time and on friday we did really well with the biggest walleye just over 21 inches. We kept 12 fish with alll over 17 and just under 20 inches it was outsatnding fishing. saturday are goal was to get them each 4 to take home and again the fishing was above average. I took the grandkids and daughter out yesterday and some smaller fish moved in.We kept six nice keepers. What a string of nice weather we have had. How long can it last is up to mother nature.

What a beautiful fall day here on upper red lake. After a big brunch it wa time to do a little fall fishing. the weather man totally missed as they said winds 5 to 15 and the lake was like glass. It sure is a treat to fish when the lake is like that. After picking up bait and gas I headed out to deeper water figuring the water would be a little clearer. After never getting a bite I headed to the north shore again looking for a little clearer water. I found my first keeper in 4 feet of water next to a dying weed patch a nice 19 incher. i worke dthe area for a bit but with no other bite I headed east and picked up a 17 again in less then 5 feet of water 2 bites and two fish. Not the best for the time I spent fishing but still a beautifull afteernoon on the lake