Category: Goose Lake

Louise and Bill arrived at Goose Lake this morning. We are proceeding on the assumption that we will have a season at some point this year. The Covid experts that advise the government have come up with the recommendations at right for crossing the border into Canada. When the border opens we will…

Ryan and Bill made a trip to our landing at Stormer Lake to retrieve a 500 gallon fuel tank.

Ryan and Bill flew to Goose Lake to pick up some tools and do a last of season camp check.  

Ryan, Eliza, and Louise went fishing at the Honey Hole and caught this nice 24 inch walleye.

Yes, we are all still here. The forecast for this weekend calls for very nice weather. The wild rice is very slow to ripen. Perhaps the nice weather will hurry things along. Photo is of Ryan and Eliza with walleye for supper. The walleye are at 20 feet. The two motors are for moving…

The first boat was done a couple of days ago. No more climbing over the seats at Nechigona. We finished the last boat yesterday.

Rice harvesting is in full swing. Only a little short of 2,000 pounds for the first picking. The second and third pickings should be much more.

We used the portable winch to portage the boats from Nechigona to Goose. They will get the Loon Haunt modification.

Ryan is back and we are changing some posts that rotted after 40 years.

The rice crop is looking good and the machine is almost ready to go. We should be picking in the next 4 or 5 days. The little Volkswagen engine started on the second flip.