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March 2023
Fishermen fishing this summer with us: CHECK YOUR PASSPORT EXPIRY DATES. We want to see you this summer!!! Ensure that you can come fishing this summer with a quick look at your passports!
Chris loves to be able to fly in the winter time as you can get around so easily. Check out the scenery from up above! Gorgeous winter views!! This plane here is fully equipped with skis so he can land on the snow.
Lake trout for supper! Quick family recipe: put fresh trout fillets on a greased baking dish/pan, add lemon wedge, sliced onion, seasonings (we love Old Bay) and sliced tomato. For those who like ketchup you can even put a little squeeze on that. Bake it at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes until fillets just start to shrink-your fish is cooked!
February 2023
Chris started off the month in Iowa doing a sport show and went straight to Chicago to meet up with Amber and Lisa, the new manager of Kettle Falls. We were able to visit with lots of memorable guests and met a lot of new fishermen as well. We cannot wait for this upcoming summer!
Once back from Chicago, it was getting organized so we could bring snowmobile sleighs full with our stock of supplies into the remote camps. What a great few days it was-look at the blue skies in the picture-pretty deceiving when the temperature was -30C.
January 2023
Happy New Year!! To bring in the New Year why not go fishing? Chris caught this lake trout when he was out working on camps…hard work, eh? No, Chris and Jonny went cutting firewood for the remote (outpost) camps in preparation for the summer. After being out on trails and snowmobiles, it’s nice to stop and make a fire to warm up your lunch. Lots of times with the frigid temperatures sandwiches get so solid by lunchtime you could break a tooth. The fire is nice to warm up next to and heat/thaw your lunch!
We were able to do some of our sport shows in January…we have been doing the Kansas City sport show for decades and the show was cancelled due to loss of venue and St Paul was cancelled as well. We went to Milwaukee, WI and it was great to be back in the saddle again after not doing any sport shows since prior to Covid.
December 2022
We want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! We hope all fishermen receive something fishy this Christmas whether its fishing tackle, fishing gear, fishing rods, fishing pictures or something that reminds fishermen of their trips to Halley’s Camps!
On December Chris and Gene were able to snowmobile out to One Man across the English River. Testing the ice is a must dealing with the current of the river, especially around the main channel points. One Man is safe and sound, solar is on with generator backup and everything is running as it should!
October & November 2022
The CANADIAN border is open to unvaccinated travelers! This is huge news!! We have contacted lots of people to tell them that the border is open! For 2023 dates, give us a call and we’ll get you fishing!!
Here MOOSE, Moose, MOOSE
The fall is when we do our moose hunts and this year in October, we had 2 groups in at our outposts. We had a self-guided, Halley experienced group be very successful and enjoyed romping through the bush. They were an archery group that started their hunt in September and finished in October.
Our next hunt was our rifle hunt at one of our fly in remote cabins. This family of hunters were excited to be out hunting and to view the north country. They were also successful at seeing moose and had some great stories!
Project from start to finish
We try cutting a lot of our own wood on our WoodMizer mill. Check out the video from this summer when Chris was running the mill. This wood was being cut for shore lunch shelters as when the wildfire came through last year much of them were burned. Our big flat nose boat was used to haul the wood to the new locations and kept the progress going. Chris rounded up a crew of workers to build the new shacks and they look awesome!!
New 50hp MOTORS for 2023
We always try our best to give our fishermen great boating equipment and we are getting new motors on our fishing boats for the 2023 season. We had 6 guys working as a team pulling boats from the water, emptying all the equipment out, pulling them up next to the backhoe and they would use the machine to lift the motors off and then set them on the transport trailer. 26 motors are on their way for spring time!
VIEW the trophy registries:
The trophy fish list for Halley’s Camps has been compiled! Halley’s guests registered a total of 1,170! That is an incredible number!! Click here to view the Halley’s Camps Trophy Water List for 2022. The totals: 748 smallmouth bass, 175 walleyes, 242 northern pike and 5 lake trout! High five to all the fishermen this summer!!
Thank you to our staff for the summer work!
A huge shout out to all of our staff -guides, servers, housekeepers, drivers, boat transporters, managers, cooks, retail, reservations, pilots, administration and more!! One of our staff sent us some pictures in the life of working at Halley’s Camps and Damien worked with us from the early days in May until October-check out Damien’s pictures!!
In memory
Fisherman and dear friend, Hutch Schilling, we hope you are fishing in clear skies above.
Hutch fished with us in June and July at One Man.
The CANADIAN border is open to unvaccinated travelers!
Hooking into 2023
All of our guests/fishermen/customers should have received their letters regarding the 2023 season. We have freshly updated dates on our website and if you don’t see dates that you are looking for, please contact us and we will see if we can wiggle you in! Let’s go fishing!
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