Category: Loon Haunt Outposts

Spring is here. Many lakes have open water thanks to the 80 degree temperature on May 7. Our airplane has more company at the docks and the airplanes have all left the ice in Howey Bay. Despite the very thick ice in April, the ice will be out in plenty of time.

The airplane is unloaded and ready to go for the 2018 season. It will probably be about two weeks before we get it back to our own dock.

Louise and Bill arrived in Winnipeg yesterday from Boston. Today, we did a mad dash around Winnipeg picking up last minute things needed for the upcoming season. Then out to Selkirk to load the airplane and fly to Red Lake. The runway we landed on two weeks ago is in the background behind…

The weather has warmed up and the snow is melting. Walleye season is closed and Ryan is fishing for northerns. There is still almost four feet of ice. We need to melt a foot of ice each week to have a chance at open water for the opening of walleye season on May…

It is time for our annual mid April photo of the bay. As you can see it is still winter here. Compare to previous years and you will notice quite a difference from year to year. This is quite typical for us. It is not climate change it is just normal Continental Climate.

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.