| Fly out fishing outpost cabins north of
Red Lake Ontario Canada. News about the 2012 season |
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January 19/12 Winter arrived with a vengeance this week. Up to now we have had mild temperatures and little snow. This morning we had 40 below. The picture at left was taken January 17/12 from the ice in front of Green Airways. Our vehicle is on the side of the road that crosses the lake to Cochenour. This cold weather will be much appreciated by the people who count on getting freight in on the winter roads. Yes, there are Ice Road Truckers in Red Lake. |
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February 5/12 We
are in Fort Frances waiting for the weather to
improve so I can fly the airplane to Park
Rapids, Minnesota for repairs. The picture
at left was taken yesterday morning at Red
Lake. It took one hour to fly to Fort
Frances and then all day waiting for weather and
dealing with customs to get the airplane to
International Falls. By the time I had everything
taken care of the weather in Park Rapids had
deteriorated to the point where I could not fly.
More to follow.
February 6/12 I made it
to Park Rapids in a little over one hour. Louise
drove down to pick me up and we drove back to Fort
Frances.
February 7/12 we are back in Red Lake and apparently the airplane is having the paint stripped right now. |
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February 11/12 Great news. Read the government announcement concerning crossing the border into Canada if you have a DUI conviction by clicking on the link at the left. Greg Rickford, referred to in the article, is our local federal government representative | ||
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February 28/12
We are vacationing in Clearwater Beach, Florida with
our family. Our daughter Kari and her daughter JB. Our son Scott with his wife Lori and their children Addy and Cam We are still checking email regularly and our telephone call forwards to our cell phone here in Florida |
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March 14/12 Red
Lake has had very warm and sunny weather for the
past week with more on the way. Everyone is
talking about a record early break up. It
would be great to get some serious rain in what
remains of March and April. The water levels
are very low. When we left Goose Lake in
September the water was at the lowest level we have
ever seen. We had very little snow this winter
and the old snow blower was never used. BUT
check out the old news09
and see what happened on May 15/09
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March 19/12- 4 p.m. The
temperature outside is 76 F. The picture at
left looking from our dock north to the lake. Most
of the snow is gone from our yard. The ice is
looking very dark. The weather should cool
tomorrow. The heat wave was great while it
lasted. |
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April 3/12 The
weather has cooled off a bit but we still get
melting during the day and lots of sunshine but not
much rain. The little lake across from the new
Tim Horton's is open and the lake by the hospital
(Florin Lake) will open about 2 or 3 days later.
Howey Bay will follow in about 4 or 5 days.
So, I have been predicting ice our April 10.
If the weather turns really warm the above schedule
accelerates, if it turns cold things take longer, if
the wind really blows the whole schedule is blown
away along with the ice. Walleye season closes
April 15 so everyone wants to go fishing by boat
before then just because they have never done it
before. |
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April 5/12 We
sold our outpost cabin on Cherrington Lake to Eddie
Showalter. If you are interested in fishing
Cherrington please contact Showalters. For everyone who fished Cherrington with us in the past, thank you very much for including us in your vacation plans. We enjoyed being part of your holiday experience. |
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April 8/12 We
received both winds and cold weather so the ice is
still hanging in, but broken into large
pieces. The picture at left shows the ice is
gone from McNeely bay. East Bay is also ice
free but Howey Bay still has ice. |
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April 13/12 Howey
Bay still has ice but this shot of our bay shows
only one patch of ice floating out in the
middle. We could fly from our base to our
lakes now if we had an airplane. There would be no
point because it is more than a month until fishing
season opens and the first guests arrive. |
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May 7/12 We drove
to Park Rapids to pick up the airplane. The
new paint looks great. As you can see we kept
the same paint scheme. I flew from Park Rapids
to Fort Frances to clear customs then to Selkirk
Manitoba to change from wheels to floats. |
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May 10/12 We are
back in Red Lake. Louise and I went to Monroe Lake
today to start getting it ready. We had to do
some serious chain saw cutting on the portage to U
Lake. The water level is just perfect about 10
inches below the top of the dock. We will take
tomorrow off to rest our old bodies and then go to
Unnamed on May 12/12. Our first fishermen
arrive on May 17. |
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| The price of Beer |
Originally this season we
quoted the price of beer as $43.00 US per
case. The US dollar has strengthened and so
far we have not had a beer price increase so we are
now quoting a beer price of $40.25 for most brands.
Some premium brands are a bit higher. Labatts Blue
and Blue light are on sale so we are quoting $38.00
for them. All the above refer to a case of 24 cans. Please get your order in as soon as possible so we can stock up at these prices. |
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Sunset Photos |
Norseman Photos | The Pilots from Green Airways |
Handy Length to
Weight Converter |
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