Mid Summer Report

Hello Everybody.

I have been majorly slacking on my end of the blogging world. Travis has written one too many if you ask me. Well, I decided to put an end to that.

Out at camp we are pretty much at the halfway mark for this season. I can't believe it. Time has gone by really quickly this year! Cosmo has managed to maintain his weight so far this year which Travis and I are really happy about. Nothing like having a starving puppy face watching you cook all day long. As much as he watches me I think Cosmo could pretty much take over KP duty if I got eaten by a monster Northern.

Cosmo had a special visitor last week. My grandma, Barbara Vestal, from Marshfield, MO came up as a guest last week. We had a lot of fun fishing and hiking out at camp. She also got to go to Red Lake's Norseman Festival which was this weekend. You can find out more about this event in Red Lake by clicking here. Below you can see that she enjoyed being out on the water and had some success of her own catching Walleye, Northern Pike, and Perch.





I am in town today (on Sunday, which is extremely unusual) to pick up my other grandma, mama, and two cousins, also from Missouri. I'm sure we will have some more pictures soon of all their fishing adventures.

Until next time...

Night of the Rock Bass

This is for all the rock bass fans out there...





That's right...two rock bass in one night. A pretty successful outing if you ask me.

Fish Photos!

Don't forget to send pictures from your trip if we didn't already get them! We love to see pictures of fish, wildlife, the camp, and all the great scenery. Email them to eaglefallslodge@yahoo.com or mail hard copies to us at Box 224, Red Lake Ontario P0V 2M0.



Here is a picture above of Tracy Mack's (yeah, that's my dad) 26" walleye caught in the falls at the back of Parker. He caught it on a yellow Creek Chub Darter that doesn't go more than a foot underwater believe it or not!



Above is Shawn Burns with a nice 40" Northern.



Check out Larry Andris with a huge 41.75" Northern.

Below are some of last week's guests - Brian, Zach, Rolly, & John with a nice stringer of fish from Parker.



I know a few of you enjoy exploring and many of you probably know there are several abandoned gold mines in the area. A few guests visited the Red Summit mine which is accessible off the Mt. Jamie road by a trail on the north end of Martin Bay. This is one of the older mines in the area. Unfortunately there aren't any building left at this site, just some racks of core samples, a bulldozed pile of lumber, and a large spoils pile with some quartz. Below is an old truck on the trail that couldn't quite make the trip back. That's all for now from the north. Until next time!

Wacky Weather

The weather has been wild this past week as you can see from the photos below. Rain followed by sunshine followed by more rain.









Fortunately, even with all the fronts moving through the guests still managed to catch some nice fish. See Scott Nelson's walleye below.



We also has a bonus visitor in camp this week - a baby bird which Carrie promptly named Chipper despite his grumpy outward appearance. Luckily Cosmo decided to not make Chipper an afternoon snack and after a couple sniffs, Chipper was allowed to bumble about the camp. After two days he flew (I'll use that word loosely since he was still pretty awkward) off into the Canadian bush. Maybe he'll visit again.

Power Struggle

Greetings from the north! Judging by the title of this post, most of you probably thought this blog might pertain to who is actually in charge out at the lodge. Even though Carrie and I (Travis) both own the lodge, everyone knows that I'm the one in charge. Everything usually runs smooth too, as long as I do what Carrie tells me to do.

Speaking of running smooth though, we had a little excitement this past week and unfortunately it was the wrong kind. Our generator that powers the camp was hit by lightning and the computer inside wasn't too happy about it. We do have the camp running again on a backup system so no worries if you are getting ready to make the trip up.

There has been plenty of the good kind of excitement too. Enjoy these recent photos of some trophy catches - Bob Gouge and his 42" Northern.



Annette Ragsdale and her 36.5" Northern



Matt Dillon with a healthly 34.5" Northern.



Happily, all fish were released! Also Jeff & Andy Zwieg have managed to locate a new eagle nest on Parker near the old one that many of you probably remember. Here's a shot.



The walleye are moving to deeper water on Red Lake with most of the fish now being caught in the 12-20' range. The fish are Parker are still being caught near the weedlines and steady wind has produced great numbers of fish the past week. If you have questions or comments about a specific area on the lake please write. Until next time...