Category: Goose Lake

Goose Lake 27 inch walleye.

We are now getting into the swing of things. We have had several groups cross the border and the line ups are gone. The process is working. 

Ryan and Eliza retrieved the first load of minnows for the season.

Ryan and Eliza took the motors and all the assorted equipment over the portage for the Nechigona boats.

Ryan is back and caught the first fish. Finally a bit of good news. The Canada Border Service Agents have settled their dispute with the Canadian government and there will be no work slow down at the border.

Good news. We received an inch of rain in the past 24 hours. This along with cooler temperatures pretty well assures us of no more fire problems.

Smokey and windy today but the smoke is from fires a long way away. Nothing burning close to any of our camps right now. We portaged over to Nechigona Lake and got the ramp and boats back into position for fishermen arriving August 15. We need Ryan to portage the motors. He will…

A couple of days of cooler temperatures provided a great chance to get all the reef markers out. Last night we had some rain and more is forecast for Friday. The fires that threatened us here at Goose Lake are not a problem right now. Things have also settled down by Monroe and…

Today, we portaged over to Nechigona Lake and hauled the boats down from winter storage (in the bush). We anchored two boats out in the channel, inverted one boat in the water near shore and pushed the ramp well out so they would not get damaged by fire.

If Covid and the border wasn’t enough, we are now having serious problems with forest fires. We have fires to the north, east and west. We are not threatened yet but we have serious smoke every day. If the winds are light we have smoke but the fires don’t move much. If we…