Since writing my last Blog entry, we’ve been doing lots of maintenance and updates around the Resorts and Outposts. For the
most part we’ve had some pretty nice weather to work with. The progress started out strong with about one week of nice weather. McVicar saw new
walkways, a new boat ramp, and a new roof on the fish cleaning house. The floor
of the new building at Northern Lights Resort was completed, and the fish house
at Northern Lights received a new roof. The deck and walkways at Dobie got
freshened up with some paint, and various other jobs got started at different
locations.
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| McVicar Boat Ramp |
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| New Paint at Dobie Lake |
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| Fish House at Northern Lights with New Roof |
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| New Building at Northern Lights Resort |
We then got hit with a couple weeks of freezing
cold, windy, foggy, rainy days. Flying was not possible most days and we even
got some snow! This is very typical for fall around here. We always have high
hopes of getting lots of work done in the beautiful fall weather, but Mother
Nature always has other plans.
Luckily, the bad weather let up and we got another
couple weeks of beautiful weather and so the work continued. Lots of work got
done at Otatakan. The trees that fell last summer were cleaned up and lots of
firewood was cut. Grace Lake got a new outhouse and walkway and this past weekend we
spent at Shabumeni and started the clean up there. We also started building a brand
new dock at Shab.
The moose hunters that we had in camp this fall were all
successful. Each party got a cow moose. We had resident deer
hunters in camp just last week and they ended up with at least 12 deer total,
which was fantastic. After such a harsh winter, we weren’t sure what to expect
for the deer hunt. The non-resident hunt starts next week so we will see how
they do.
We also had “Muskie Hunters” in camp last week at K.C.'s Landing Resort.
Between three guys, they were averaging between 10 and 14 Muskies per day on
the Indian Lake Chain. They caught three beautiful Tiger Muskies over 40 inches
long and several other Muskies over the 40-inch mark using the live suckers that we
provide. They also caught a 30-inch Walleye on a sucker! And one other thing worth mentioning, is that the September Crappie
fishing was OUTSTANDING on Cedar Lake.
Not much time left now for open-water fishing. Our bait & tackle shop in Kenora, Sunset Baits will be closing down soon and will re-open when there is ice on the lakes. We will keep you updated with freeze-up and other things going on around Clark's!
Until next time,
Meagan
