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Man have we been having fun!
- FAMILY TIME
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Time for a new fishing spot
Dale is always thinking ahead. There is always the possibility where the circumstances change, whether ice conditions or change in the bite. Could be a number of reasons. That time has come and we are moving to Dales planned next fishing location which he has been preparing for several weeks now.
Yesterday and again today with the help of our amazing team – Matt, Jacob and Tom S. helped Dale move day houses and sleepers. Each house takes 30- 60 minutes from the old to the new spot! Today I believe the move 5-6 houses – 3 guys! Amazing job. On top of the guest check outs, day house guests morning ck ins and evening check outs, Guest visits by Dale he also grooms our trail to our houses.
Dale spends many an hour not only taking care of each of our guests in each sleeper and day house everyday, in addition grooming and maintaining a trail that we transport our guests on. He, along with Matts help the trail is maintained and groomed each day!
Working hard to give them a comfortable ride to and from their fish house. He likes to put the final run just before dark on our last trip with our dayhouse guests. This is because with no traffic after his final pass sets up a nice smooth trail for morning.
Here are some of the fun times we had over the last week.
Big one catch and release in our Dayhouse Jan 1st!
The hot hook shared by our Guests who spent Christmas on the ice with us! Other shared colors or style of lire was: wonder bread, plain red hook, green, red glitter, the coffin.
Amy reeling in the big ones!
Birthday boy!!
Dale enjoying a game of tick with this young one!
Comments
“Thanks again for the great accommodations! It was really nice to be able to get my dad and kids out on the ice together.”
Colin F
Fun times here at Dale’s On Lake of the Woods
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- There is a birthday in the house!
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- Bobby – nice catch
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- Christmas Eve, putting up the Christmas tree’s for each sleeper with Guests and a plate of Christmas treats too!
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- Thank you letters from our young ladies fishing with us this Christmas. Thank you!!
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- Burbot has been caught. Cross that off my “TO DO” list
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- Looking good there young lady.
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- Another one for the bucket!!
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- Thanks Dad this is a big one!!
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- Families who fish together – can’t beat that.
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- Girls are rockin it!
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- Mother and Son catch
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- Father and son catch
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- Already from Montana – caught a nice slot fish. Great catch-little slower today.
Merry Christmad
Have a blessed Christmas! Dale and Connie
Photos of our first week of ice fishing
January cancellations – open spots for 10 x 18 Sleeper
There have been a couple reservations where guests have needed to cancel due to illness or conflicts.
You are welcome to book online or call Connie at 320-630-6734.
Openings
January 1st – 5th
January 13th – 15th
10 x 18 sleeper – 1 -4 Guests
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What have we been up to???
LAKE CONDITIONS
We have more snow again this morning. That would bring us up to about 7 inches of snow I am guessing. This snowfall was light and fluffy. The first 4.5 inches was wet and heavy with lots of wind. We do have a crack between Twin Island’s and Gull Rock that is 10 feet wide at this point in time. There is a report from a snowmobiler that there is a crack between Arnesen’s reef and 16 mile that was 3 feet wide as of yesterday, 12.15.24. So that being said we are not opening our access until these 30-degree temps change, which they will, and the ice conditions become safer.
SLEEPERS AND DAY HOUSES
We have been moving and shaking over the last week. HUGE THANK YOU TO MATT, TOM S., JUSTIN, AND JAYDEN! As of yesterday, we have all of our Sleepers and all of our Day houses out in our start up fishing spot. Not all are set up as of yet but should have them set up over this next week. All reservations are a go; however, this is December, and all reservations remain “BASED ON ICE CONDTIONS”.
WINTER LAKE ACCESS
Due to the cracks that are open we will be keeping our winter lake access closed until we see conditions improve. Our winter lake access will be tracks only, if your track snow machine is able to pull your fish house you are able to bring your fish house out our access. We have our winter lake access information line available 7 days a week/24 hour a day with the most recent update by calling 218-442-6661. Dale checks the lake conditions every morning between 6 and 6:30 a.m. and with his report I update the winter lake access information for you each day.
Thank you to all who follow us, and we will continue to keep you updated the best we can! Thank you to all who joined us this week for ice fishing. Thank you for being flexible and staying in the sleepers on land and fishing in the day houses during the day. We so enjoyed your company and thank you for coming to fish with us.
Dale and Connie along with all our team! Thank you!
Webcam looks like the website has it offline again.
I checked the website and did find the live feed from our webcam show’s Twitch has us offline again. I have placed a call to Wiktel and hopefully Dilon will have it back online again tomorrow.
It is all in Wiktel’s hand’s and they will get it back again. Not sure why Twitch feed provider keeps going offline,
but Dilon will figure it out.
Hang in there with us – and thank you!!
We have one day house on the edge of the parking lot ready for ice. Dale and Matt are out right as we speak checking ice.
We will keep you posted on our progress. We know as of right now we are unable to get Sleepers out as of today, but as soon as ice conditions seems to be good we are ready to move them out and set them up.
We are certainly loving the -10 degrees today!!!
Snowing today 12.7.24
Ice Conditions are making progress- we are finding 5.5-7 inches of ice. We have started to work on our trail where we are starting our ice fishing season 2024-2025!
We have snowfall today and we will see how much accumulation by tomorrow noon and then get right back to checking ice and grooming.
We will post an update in a couple days. All our guests that have a reservation with us in the next week we will be calling you with an update tomorrow evening to let you know what the plans are for starting of ice fishing.