Duke joined us for his 21st year on the Chairman, sometimes twice a year! John Breen, George Ball, Buddy Burzik, Jim Shimkus, and Don Crockford made up the rest of Duke’s party. Duke has along history at Rainy Lake Houseboats coming the first time with Norm Westerhold and George Schaefer. Norm and George have passed […]

  Today at 7:07 PM Jon fished with  and Mike Scott and Hunter. They fished a top of reef in 30 feet of water from 8:00- 1030 AM.  They went to another reef and ended up spending  rest of the day on that reef. Only fished two spots.  The second spot  walleyes were on the break or […]

I received a call from Randy Kroese on Sunday evening June 22. Randy was having a get together with friends Bob included and asked if I had a guide available for Tuesday and Wednesday. Randy said he can’t play golf so he might as well fish. Randy took a spill on a bike and broke […]

  Art’s group arrived on Thursday evening June 19th. We left the dock on Friday morning enjoying a breakfast served by chef Bernie Lessard on our way to Brule Narrows. We moored in a nice secure bay for the next couple nights. Art’s guides were my self on Friday, Kevin Erickson and Norm Wood.  Our […]

Pete Ankeny returned to Rainy Lake again this year for another fly fishing/smallmouth bass trip. Pete had special guests with him this year; his grandsons and son in law. Weather was fairly decent for the trip. We did have rising water levels that provided quite a challenge. Male bass would periodically show up around spawning […]