Happy thanksgiving,
Mother nature has decided it’s time to get things rolling. With temps dropping to single digits by sunday eve I expect some walking out by next weekend. Every year is different as your plans can change from plan a to plan b in the blink of an eye. I would say dealing with mother nature is the hardest as you have zero control, she always throwing a wrench in things it defiantly makes thing challenging. There was one year we were forecasted quite a bit of snow on a thursday evening through the night. Friday is always the busiest day. I get up in the early morning expecting a foot of snow but there is just a a dusting. I have all the houses ready to auger so I’m dilly dallying around. I head out with blue thunder 1. This is back in the crappie days and im the furthest west I have ever had the houses. I get about 5 miles out. Theres over a foot of snow with drifts 3, 4 feet high. With no vee plow it takes well over 2 hours just to get to the houses where each house has 4-foot snow drifts around them. Talk about a stressful day.
Kellier fire and rescue has a fundraiser coming up with a fishing derby to boot. 50 dollars ges your entry with chances at some great prizes a kitty kat snowmobile, a lite weight skid house, garmin live scope package 1000,750,500 cash prizes, a generator, led tv, miter saw, auger. You do not have to present to win. Ticket also includes entry into fishing derby. This is based out of westwind but you are allowed to fish on all state of minnesota waters of upper red lake you can register 4 fish, which I assume enters you into other drawings? The date is dec 13 from 11 to 3 pm in front of westwind. If the ice is unsafe Raffle will still occur even if ice conditions do not allow fishing derby.
This year Jonny will be running the houses again with Dusty and granddaughter Asley Poo. You can check out our web page cookiesonupperredlake.com. Our houses are all named after states.
Blue thunder 2 broke down late last season so there is a chance she will not be on the lake this year. Those 2 trucks and boss plow have run our business for over 20 years. Red Baron still has a broken transfer case but the big v plow is mounted on rusty trusty. We also have the white ghost that Jonny purchased last year. Both have 454 chevy motors. I’d say they get 6 miles to the gallon if that. I will start with black beauty again this year with just 1rst 2nd and reverse gears.
The area has grown for lodging over the years with at least houses that are now b@bs. Ross, Robyn, Frank, Harry and Ben, Kaytlen off the top of my head.
We talked to eric from beaon harbor he has got a new steel bridge I’m sure he’s excited to see how well it performs.
The gas station here in town is closed so make sure you plan accordingly. We are asking our customers to bring a extra 5 gallons of gas this year if possible, we will have 5 gallons when you arrive. Also remember there is no garbage allowed touching the ice we do have totes attached to place the garbage in. We are also asking customer that have trucks to possible take some of the garbage bags home with you.
We still have some shore rental lodging the weekend of the 4th and 12th for early ice. Mother nature decides when the houses can get onto fishable ice. Were still weighing on running are own access one of these years. We do talk about it every year. We still have plenty of days with open houses. I also offer 20% off sunday through wednesday. I’ve always tried to get repeat customers by treating them how I would like to be treated. It something ive been very proud of over all these years on a grand lake that owes us nothing.