The first parties have returned from Metionga Lake. Season for walleye opened last Saturday. Walleye opener is our opener too.
Nice start to a great fishing season.
Lots of walleye to eat and thick northerns to fight. A Canada fishing vacation couldn’t be better.
...read more.We can measure fishing success many ways. In my opinion you can never have a bad day of fishing even if catching is slow. But if catching is good, fishing is then fantastic!
Irene Lake has produced many happy anglers with a variety of species. Small mouth bass and lake trout are the two most common species with northern pike being ...read more.
Our business is providing the type of fishing/wilderness vacation we would like ourselves. Part of this entails us working while you play.
Doing the little things like replacing deck screens keeps mosquitos out and thus makes one more part of your vacation better.
We can drain the water lines in the fall, and still have a few spring surprises. Unfortunately they don’t teach plumbing in pilot school but bush pilots either learn these extra skills or move on to pavement to pavement type flying with coffee delivery on demand while wearing a white shirt with stripes on the shoulders. Randy has worked with ...read more.
Somehow some pine martins got into one cabin this winter. I would think the only thing of interest to them would be mice. I am sure we won’t see a mouse in this cabin for a while, so in that regard it is a good thing. But martins do make a mess. They found some pancake flour in the garbage ...read more.
I am sitting here with a terrible itch to go fishing. I think I am getting a little walleye fever as well. My friend the doctor told me there is little he can do for me. My maladies have been diagnosed, and the remedy is only a day away. He said let nature take its course. Walleye opener is Saturday. ...read more.
Getting cabins ready is a job that nobody likes to do but everybody around here gets to do.
Karen working on a stove
Randy inspecting for water leaks.
John getting the water on.
Our first guests show up tomorrow and we will be ready. The cabin start ups are staggered so we ...read more.
Vern’s Minnows has been a icon in Ignace for many many years. Vern’s is famous for the “minnows guaranteed to catch fish or die trying”.
Vern’s Minnows has moved. It is now located at the Shell Station on the highway just west of the Burger Scoop (my favorite burger joint).
The phone number remains the same. There are ...read more.