Opening Camp

Finally the big day came and we were able to move back out to the island. We came in on Friday the 8th of May which was the same date as we came in last year, the first good sign of a great season ahead! Lake of the Woods is beautiful any season of the year but in the early Spring it has a lonely feel to it…no beautiful green leaves showing their pretty faces to the breezes although the sentinels also known as the evergreens and still standing at their posts. The rocks are without their coats of moss and just a VERY few wild flowers are tough enough to be in bloom. But the gulls and eagles are here and so are the loons, in all their finery and even a few pelicans.

There are a few boats out and about searching the cold water for the Lake Trout. Walleye opener is this coming Saturday which will bring more trout fisher people as you can then us barbed hooks and fish parts as bait. Shore fishing (canning) becomes popular then. The Northern, Crappie, Bass and Muskie are beginning to move around a bit after a long winter.

We have the basic plant here at Whitefish Bay Camp in Ontario, Canada, up and running….the sound of the generator is always a welcome sound when it starts that first time!! Water is on and running through all the pipes so the bathrooms all function and so does that ever important ice machine….not as important now as it will be in a few weeks when the warm weather gets here.

As I said we got here Friday and Saturday it snowed!! Not the 2 feet we had a few years ago but STILL not to our liking. Sunday was beautiful and today is cool but has blue sky and sunshine….headed to 60 something degrees so our spirits remain high.

Haven’t planned your trip yet? Come up and see us at Whitefish Bay Camp,Nestor Falls/Sioux Narrows, Ontario, call 877-226-1211 for more information.

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