Our guests Tim, Bryce, Nick, Shane, Joe, Tyler and Deke arrived Sunday evening about 5:30 PM. Their gang decided to dine at Thunderbird Lodge before leaving on the Chairman Monday evening. The engines were fired up and we left port at 7:45 AM. Breakfast was served on the way up to our mooring destination. Coolers […]

I left Duluth at 6:00 AM. I was on my way up the lake by 9:30. I met James and his friends at their Lady of the Lake houseboat at the Brule Narrows Central mooring site. We had a pretty steady rain going and opted to just fish and not film.  We decided to cast plastics, stick […]

I fished with my old friend Ladd Ojala, His friend Bill and Bills dad.  Ladd and I guided together on the Chairman II back in the early 1990’s. Bob Jornlin, Ladd and I made in quite a threesome back then. We stopped on a favorite reef from the old days and there were some fish […]

Brad called me earlier this spring looking for a guide to take his dad Jim and friend Rich, and Adam Rich’s son. They were staying in the north arm of Rainy Lake. I met them about 7:50 AM. They had fished the day before and had reasonable fishing trolling spinners tipped with Gulp Minnows. I […]

Kip Zent called me this past winter. He told me about the time he had with his father thirty years ago on a houseboat trip on Rainy Lake. Kip wanted to have the same kind of experience with his son. We talked often and I assured Kip that we would do everything we could possible […]

We left port about 3:00 PM and headed east on a twenty-five mile cruise.  We had the Chairman II, Lady II, and Lady III along with twenty-one guests and. We arrived about 6:30 PM and secured the houseboats to shore tying them together so you can step from boat to boat. Chef Jim and Bernie […]

Norman John Westerhold has fished every year on the Chairman  II since 1987. Norm missed last year dealing with leukemia. Norm’s group is here for another Rainy Lake fishing trip. Unfortunately, Norm did not win his battle with cancer.  I will write about Norm on my Rainy lake Houseboat Blog. It has been tradition that […]

We left Rainy Lake Houseboats dock at 7:30 AM with the Art Kammer group with Brule Narrows as our chosen mooring site. Guides on this trip were Joey Dougherty, Jon Balaski and Bill Dougherty. The forecast was for westerly winds with a mixture of thunderstorms and rain. We were not out for long when we […]

Pete Ankeny, Phil Ankeny, Steve Wilson, and Dave Ryerse joined us for 3 and 1/2 days of smallmouth bass fishing. Joe Dougherty and Jon Balaski would be the guides. The technique we planned on using were popping bugs on a fly rod. Usually we are fishing bedded bass at this time of the year. This […]

Jim Ridling’s party arrived Thursday afternoon for their 26th annual Rainy Lake Houseboat fishing trip. Tony Casereto took them out on their first Rainy Lake Houseboat trip on one of our Kempton Cruisers. This year’s group had Jim, Phil Pyeatt, John Crawford, Doug Inman, Jim Wilson, and Ken Upchurch. Jim Ridling and Ken Upchurch live […]