Our season starts next month with the official opener of May 18th!! We do have groups of bear hunters and northern pike fishermen arriving before then. We are sending informative letters to many of our May and June guests. Our summer transportation lists, and guide lists are all complete and now waiting until the time for our fishermen to arrive!

And of course, we had to get up north fishing one last time before the ice goes out. Stayed at Trapline overnight. Look at this plane picture that was taken after dark-the night was so bright out!

We built some new docks at some fly out lakes and cut some more firewood for shore lunch spots. The new dock at Trapline will be awesome!

See many of you next month!

In preparation for the season walleye opener, our souvenirs and tackle orders have been made! We are getting new ideas and planning on our camp updates!

The guys are still working across the ice every day and check out this picture of the sunset going across the lake in a truck.

Here are the girls after fishing for lake trout with a big group of us. Again, we sometimes fry them like a walleye, bake them with some veggies and seasonings or we brine them to smoke them. Either way, they are tasty!!

Even when the guys are out working on projects up north, why not bring some jigs and minnows when travelling by plane? The fishing spots are unlimited!!

Short days and lots of progress. Some ask what we do in the winters…this month we spent it at sport shows or fishing shows in the Midwest—we did 4 altogether. Chris, Amber, Jonny and Lisa all hit the road in multiple directions.

We are building a new cabin at our Dufault’s Island Outpost on the northside of Umfreville Lake 80 yards from the old cabin. The wood for the cabin was cut, milled and planed right on the island. Working every day in the cold the machinery doesn’t always like the frigid temps and so working and fixing some of the equipment was also on the list. The boards ended up having to be moved to Caribou by truck and trailer where they were planed (a thickness planer used to smooth out the lumber) and brought back across the ice road to the island. The logs on the new building are up to the tops of the windows and doors!

Lumber for some of the new docks were taken in by snowmobile and sleigh to Trapline and to some of our flyout lakes as well.

Cannot wait for guests to see the progress on the new building! Should be hopefully complete at the end of the fishing season in 2024.

January historically has always been our sportshow month. Over decades we had been to over 15 states and this year we were in 4 making our way across the midwest. Chris, Amber, Jonny and Lisa went out on the road, sometimes in different directions, depending on the shows that were happening-sometimes 2 at once! We had a lot of great conversations with new clients and had wonderful visits with our previous/existing customers. 

We are having a fall special at our all-inclusive fishing lodges (15% off our fishing packages). We invite our customers new and old to come and fish on our fall special. The fishing is amazing in September and the weather last September was beautiful. Please see more information below.

Thank you to all of our fishing phanatics that make Halley’s Camps their fishing destinations. We love greeting our customers and meeting our new ones as well. Lots of our guests look forward to their annual fishing trip throughout the year and are truly thankful they have fishing in their blood! We do our best to give everyone a fabulous fishing vacation and again Chris and Amber say a huge thank you!

Thank you to all of our staff that work diligently day after day making Halley’s Camps their summer homes. We appreciate all the work and even though we don’t have a picture of everyone, here are a few of our Halley’s staff!