Winter has set upon Ignace

Posted by on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 9:01 am

Last week we left Ignace for a week of what we call research and development – really.  We have to experience tourism hospitality elsewhere to  fine tune our product here in Ignace.  As we basked… I mean researched in the sun somewhere near salt water and sand – there really is a correlation to remote fly in fishing – our ...read more.

New bird? Nope!

Posted by on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 10:18 pm

Now that the season is over, not only am I lax in updating my blog, we have been able to take a little time to get “out of Ignace”.  We just retuned from a family wedding in Niagara Falls ON.  We also had a little time to visit our youngest daughter, Jo, in the big city -Toronto. 

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End Season 2010

Posted by on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 10:51 am

Our 2010 fishing and hunting season has ended.  All our guests have safely retuned from the camps, water lines are drained, motors have been flown out and we have a few days to do our fall chores shutting down and cleaning up. 

 

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Motors are flown out for winter service.  This involves a little heavy lifting.

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Moose season

Posted by on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 6:55 am

We are at the beginning of our rifle hunting season.  Some archers were up last week and sent me this note and pictures of their trip.

Hello Brad and Karen, I just wanted to drop you a quick note and thank you for a wonderful moose hunt on Seseganaga Lake.  You run a great operation.  All the equipment worked ...read more.

Protecting tourism values

Posted by on Monday, October 11, 2010 at 6:56 am

Our segment of the resource based tourism industry relies heavily on remoteness.  One fact of living in this part of the country is that the resources of the land must be shared.  The logging industry is as important to the area as our tourism industry.  In order for our two industries to thrive on the same land base, we must ...read more.

Construction Zone

Posted by on Friday, October 8, 2010 at 6:44 am

These past few weeks work has been down on our street to repave.  They crews are just by our hangar now.  We can not access the highway our normal way but have to journey down Lakeshore Dr. to West Street and then to the highway.

 

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I am not sure what exactly is ...read more.

Fall Fishing

Posted by on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 6:46 am

The weather may not always cooperate but fall fishing can be as rewarding as summer fishing.

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Dress a little warmer by adding a few layers. 

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I think Neil has every on that he brought except a smile.  It’s still better than working however.

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