A great fishing report and a few things I forgot about last week. Passing in waskish . We had a customer turning into our driveway last week coming from the south. As he started to turn in a semi came a round in the no passing lane. The semi driver tried to avoid hitting him but clipped the front end of his truck shearing off the bumper, headlights, grill before hitting the ditch in front of our house. Kellie aka The Hammer was sitting here at the computer when a full-blown semi came flying down the ditch as it came to a stop just past our house as she was looking out the window not 15 yards in front of our house. God was in James pickup as one fender length they would have been tee boned. Please Please do not pass when going through Waskish it is a no passing zone as there are many many driveways through town. please slow down.
We have been battling mother nature with high winds and some snow on Thursday and again on Saturday. The drifting can cause a lot of havoc with the extra weight causing house to flood. It like the weight causes a bowl shape or plate on the ice and the water trickle out and freezes. As long as the house are blocked up high enough having the heat on keeps the water under the house from freezing. It’s been a ton of hard work to break them loose. California will be the last to get out. The new heater had an issue, so she maybe froze in pretty good. The heater was set for natural gas not propane, so an orifice needs to be switched out. The fishing has been pretty good when we get the houses on fresh ice. Colorado had a nice pile of fish when I stopped in last night, Dominic and his dad Mark had good luck with rattle wheels going off all night in Tennessee. Utah had Olivia and Brock they had good action. We got Texas the new 6 man out with Joe, Pin, Paul, Matt, what a great group of guys. I expect we will see them again. Idaho had PJ, Sheris, Sheva they only got a couple after the guys before them had done rally well. Florida had John and Jeff, they had much better action the last night after we moved it out a little deeper.

This year we have made the decision to maintain our own road system. After all these years of helping others are goals have been to become bigger and better. For our rental customers it will be a free will donation to maintain the system. The public will need to pay a 20-dollar fee per night so Friday Saturday night is 40 dollars if you’re leaving Sunday. Please use our landing when leaving the lake. As the years catch up to me and the hammer the kids are basically slowly taking over. They have much bigger aspiration then I had. I have always just wanted to keep my grandma olga’s legacy to live on as she was such a good host to her fishermen. She was born here on the river her brother Jalmer downed in the Tamarac rive, along moose bank, her parents homesteaded here in 1910. There is a lake south of their homestead named Norman Lake grama’s maiden name. She loved picking blueberry’s and canning them. I always got a pint or two when we visited. She made Swedish pancakes every time we were here. This was my dad and uncle’s stomping grounds Dad use to race cars up and down the Tamarac river. They used to also water ski on it. Unkle Wayne, dads brother worked with Shorty Hillman, Buddy Hillman’s dad on the north slopes of Alaska. Cousin Pete my mentor when I got into the ice fishing business up here was my dad’s buddy growing up. They all went to school together in the little town of Waskish a fishing destination.
The crew Dusty, Ashley, Justin tuna, and Jonny boy went above and beyond earning there keep battling mother nature trying to move houses in that brutal weather Thursday and saturday on a grand lake that owes us nothing