Temperatures are warming up!

The weather has been beautiful in NW Ontario the past week and it looks like the warm trend is going to continue for a while yet. Some rain is in the forecast as well which is great weather for getting rid of that sheet of hard water from our lakes. The Otter should be back in town this week, I am anxious to get back in the air and begin getting the camps ready for the season.

2009 Underway!!

We arrived in Red Lake on Wednesday to ice covered lakes! The ice though is deteriorating quickly. If the weather forecast is right we should have a nice stretch of dry sunny warm weather. We are due for a nice warm spring, maybe this year.

Leaving the Prairie behind us in Winnipeg.


Maija in Vermillion Bay at the Inushuk.


The view down the river from our office, only ice along the edges.

Are you ready?

Spring is arriving in the North, I can not wait to be back in the air and showing people a good time. The sound of the Otter has to be my favorite!

The Wind-up!

Yesterday we had the wind up on the lake. It was a good time but the kids ended up playing hockey on their boots and walking 1.5 miles out to Gull island and back. A good time was had by all.

The Wind-up on the Lake

Tomorrow we are having our 3rd annual windup on the lake. It was looking like we were not able to do it this year but the warm weather melting all the snow and then going down to minus 20 celcius for a week we had a window of opportunity. But today and tomorrow it is starting to melt again. The kids and I skated on it today and it was pretty soft and getting slushy on top, a few bruises just from the wipeouts! Canadians will skate on anything. The kids may end up just playing on their boots tomorrow but we will have a good time, bonfire, food and drinks.



We skated right where we started fishing in the fall and there was an old northern head sitting there. It made a good puck!

Findlay Lake Video

Here are a couple of videos from some of our guests.

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Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St Patricks Day everyone, have a drink and be Irish. I know I will be pretending to be Irish today, this is one of my favorite holidays.

I have been working with some of our old Amik video lately and here is one of the clips. I think the fishing has gotten better since then.....what do you think?