We hosted Rainy Lake Oil for four days on the Chairman II.  Larry and Steve have been using the Chairman for the past three years. The trips are different than regular trips in the respect that they bring in guests for a day and a half and then bring in new guests. We get to […]

I had a treat in store for me on this trip. Ladd Ojala a former guide at Rainy Lake Houseboats was coming to fish with me for two days. He brought Reynold Lofgren from Littlefork, Minnesota and Tom Jackson from Minneapolis. Ladd last guided with me in 1994. He moved on to a successful career […]

Frank and his partner Tony rented our two-person boat for a week fishing on Rainy Lake. Frank and Tony like to fish with artificial baits. We started in the weedy bays casting for northern. We saw what Frank called “zoomers” small pike flashing like lightning at the Johnson Silver Minnow. We moved out into Cranberry […]

Our friends from AFG started arriving about 11:00 AM on Tuesday morning. The last arrivals were in by 2:00 PM. We left port with the Chairman and two Lady of the Lakes by 2:20 PM. We had seventeen guests on the three houseboats with two guests meeting us at our mooring spot. We were moored […]

June 24, 2013 Bart Olek and his family came to Casa Loma on Saturday June 22, 2013.  I was scheduled to take his relatives fishing on Monday. Bart and his dad Sonny would follow along. I was going to do things a little different than I may do on a houseboat. We decided to head […]

We have been receiving questions about the difference between our guide rates and others that have a base fee plus a $50.00 extra charge for the the third and fourth person. We charge $350.00 per day for guiding Rainy Lake Houseboat customers and it allows for either two or three fisher persons per guide boat. […]

Art’s group arrived Wednesday evening June 19th. The Chairman pulled out of port at 7:30 AM Thursday morning. A hour and one half breakfast cruise to our mooring site and we were off in search of surface striking smallmouth bass. The guides were Bill Dougherty, Jon Balaski and Kevin Erickson. Bernie Lessard was the chef […]

Roger was at the dock waiting when I returned back to base in my new Lund Pro V GL 208. Everyone gets excited when they get a new boat. I had a smile as I came off plane pulling into our bay. I drove a 250 hp Suzuki for a few years it was a […]

Jason, LuAnn, Logan, and Logan’s friend arrived at Rainy Lake Houseboats and were off on a three day excursion on the Chairman II Saturday afternoon. Jon Balaski and Kevin Erickson had the houseboat moored by 3:30 PM The Lund guide boats were loaded and off to fish walleyes on the Minnesota side of the lake. Jon and Kevin put the […]

Pete’s trip marks the first fly fishing only trip of the year. Bill Dougherty, Jon Balaski and Kevin Erickson were the guides. We fish strictly smallmouth bass with accidental pike thrown in. This year we were hoping to target bedded smallmouth bass on Pete’s trip. On the previous trip we had seen a few bass […]