Category: Loon Haunt Outposts

We are back in Red Lake and winter is still here. Hardly any snow has melted and it is cold. Ryan brought the floats home. Still lots of snow and cold weather for another week.  We now have two spare sets of floats.

Our new floats are ready to go. We are just waiting for Mother Nature to get spring underway. When the floats are fitted to the airplane, we will add steps to climb up into the door. The new floats will have two steps instead of the one step as on the old floats. The…

The weather has finally warmed up (22F yesterday).  Ryan and friends went ice fishing and they caught this nice mess of crappies on Cedar Lake.

Our aircraft is in the hanger for the annual inspection and we had it changed over to wheels.  We will fly to Selkirk Manitoba on wheels in early April to get new floats installed. We are switching to larger floats with built in baggage compartments. The airplane with larger floats will not…

Ryan has finished up at the Sport Show in Chicago and he is at the All Canada Show in Green Bay this weekend.

We have been away visiting family. While we were gone winter came to Red Lake. Ryan stayed in Red Lake for some more moose and deer hunting. Our bay is frozen over but Red Lake is still open water. The forecast for next week is warmer with rain.

The season is almost over. We are back in town and planning a final trip to Monroe Lake on Thursday. Once Monroe is done we will pull the airplane out of the water and head west to visit family in British Columbia. Ryan’s friend Brett hurt his back so Ryan will be…

Unfortunately Day 2 was not lucky for them. They lost a really big walleye that would have put them in the top three. They did have a five pounder that put them in sixth place but it died so they were penalized half the weight and finished in 23rd place. Out of…