A month beginning with uncertainty about the summer fishing season. We really wish everyone well and that everyone stays healthy. We have our fingers crossed that we can get our guests to come and visit us to be able to have a fishing break after all this pandemic is over! We are looking forward to walleye, bass, northern pike, lake trout, bears, moose, musky, deer, loons, planes, docks, boat and motors, paddles, life jackets, kayaking, canoeing, shore lunch fires, fried fish, camp fires, relaxing, dreaming, nature and anything else that gets us in the mood to ENJOY summer!!!

Our brand-new boats and motors for Caribou Falls Landing arrived. We went ahead with the purchase even with covid-19 as if the border was able to open this year, our guests would be able to have excellent new Alaskan 18’ boats to fish out of-if not, we are that much more prepared for 2021.

March was all about working and fishing at Halley’s—hard work on the saw mill followed by some beauty catches pulled up from under the ice!

As all of you know, this is the month that the pandemic hit strongly all across the world. We are feeling for everyone who cannot enjoy the outdoors throughout all of this. We are so very thankful that we live where we live—we live amongst some of the greatest nature in the Canadian Shield. All of us here went to the grocery stores as limited as possible every 1-3 weeks and not going in public places. We still worked through the month of March with Chris, Amber, Rob and Bev at our office. We were lucky that our backyards have lakes that we were able to go and fish, ice roads to get us to other fishing holes, and miles of snowmobile trails that we could use for access to ice fish. We caught our own minnows, fished with our families, and the outdoors became our social life with the birds, squirrels and all the other woodland animals.

This was a month of getting stuff done across the ice. The guys moved our transportable excavator up to Right Lake where we were going to have a septic field dug hopefully completed before the season begins in May. February was also a month of firewood cutting at some of our outposts.

Chris and Amber are getting all geared up starting some of the planning as they are looking after the lodges at Caribou, One Man, and Kettle. Staffing, meals, souvenirs and equipment were on the list this month!

Taking advantage of the nice warm temperatures! Jamie and Rob built this new section of dock at our Halley’s Camps main office at River Air in Minaki. The temperatures are so different this week compared to the start of last week. Last week they were getting frost bit from the cold temps and this week it is almost melting!