Chris started off the month in Iowa doing a sport show and went straight to Chicago to meet up with Amber and Lisa, the new manager of Kettle Falls. We were able to visit with lots of memorable guests and met a lot of new fishermen as well. We cannot wait for this upcoming summer!

Once back from Chicago, it was getting organized so we could bring snowmobile sleighs full with our stock of supplies into the remote camps. What a great few days it was-look at the blue skies in the picture-pretty deceiving when the temperature was -30C.

Happy New Year!! To bring in the New Year why not go fishing? Chris caught this lake trout when he was out working on camps…hard work, eh? No, Chris and Jonny went cutting firewood for the remote (outpost) camps in preparation for the summer. After being out on trails and snowmobiles, it’s nice to stop and make a fire to warm up your lunch. Lots of times with the frigid temperatures sandwiches get so solid by lunchtime you could break a tooth. The fire is nice to warm up next to and heat/thaw your lunch!

We were able to do some of our sport shows in January…we have been doing the Kansas City sport show for decades and the show was cancelled due to loss of venue and St Paul was cancelled as well. We went to Milwaukee, WI and it was great to be back in the saddle again after not doing any sport shows since prior to Covid.

The CANADIAN border is open to unvaccinated travelers! This is huge news!! We have contacted lots of people to tell them that the border is open! For 2023 dates, give us a call and we’ll get you fishing!!

Here MOOSE, Moose, MOOSE

The fall is when we do our moose hunts and this year in October, we had 2 groups in at our outposts. We had a self-guided, Halley experienced group be very successful and enjoyed romping through the bush. They were an archery group that started their hunt in September and finished in October.

Our next hunt was our rifle hunt at one of our fly in remote cabins. This family of hunters were excited to be out hunting and to view the north country. They were also successful at seeing moose and had some great stories!

Project from start to finish

New 50hp MOTORS for 2023

We always try our best to give our fishermen great boating equipment and we are getting new motors on our fishing boats for the 2023 season. We had 6 guys working as a team pulling boats from the water, emptying all the equipment out, pulling them up next to the backhoe and they would use the machine to lift the motors off and then set them on the transport trailer. 26 motors are on their way for spring time!

VIEW the trophy registries:

The trophy fish list for Halley’s Camps has been compiled! Halley’s guests registered a total of 1,170! That is an incredible number!! Click here to view the Halley’s Camps Trophy Water List for 2022. The totals: 748 smallmouth bass, 175 walleyes, 242 northern pike and 5 lake trout! High five to all the fishermen this summer!!

Thank you to our staff for the summer work!

A huge shout out to all of our staff -guides, servers, housekeepers, drivers, boat transporters, managers, cooks, retail, reservations, pilots, administration and more!! One of our staff sent us some pictures in the life of working at Halley’s Camps and Damien worked with us from the early days in May until October-check out Damien’s pictures!!

In memory

Fisherman and dear friend, Hutch Schilling, we hope you are fishing in clear skies above.

Hutch fished with us in June and July at One Man.

The CANADIAN border is open to unvaccinated travelers!

Hooking into 2023

All of our guests/fishermen/customers should have received their letters regarding the 2023 season. We have freshly updated dates on our website and if you don’t see dates that you are looking for, please contact us and we will see if we can wiggle you in! Let’s go fishing!

This fall the leaves captured so many bright colors. The month of September had perfect temperature weather with some days being in the high sixties to seventy degrees Fahrenheit. All in all, it was great fishing again this month and the boat rides were gorgeous!

Caribou

Reefs, shorelines, and any underwater structure were producing smallmouth bass, pike, and lots of walleye! Word on the lake was much of the bass were being caught off certain crank baits and plastics. Brian and his brothers made it up for fishing in September again this year! Out of Brian’s Family, the largest fish was a 44” pike caught by Ezra-look at the picture!! We had Tom and his family/crew up for some September fishing! We also had a couple of bear hunters from the states in September and pictured here is Jim with his bear-nice one!

One Man

The first half of September at One Man was a busy one! We had a group that normally fishes the waters at Kettle come and experience the fishing at One Man-Mark caught 5 trophy smallmouth bass-that’s pretty awesome!! We had the Esser family come fishing and they brought their next generation of Halley’s fishermen and they had such a blast-boat loads of fun-fish, shore lunches, and family time! Mike caught a large smallmouth bass pictured here.

Outpost hunts

We had some hunters staying with us at our outposts and hunt camps for fall moose hunting. We had some MOOSE action this month!! Scott and Tim were stoked when they got their first moose! We will keep y’all posted on October hunts.

September Trout

Fishing trout in the fall is different than fishing in the summer because when the water temperature cools off, the trout go more towards the shallows. The last day of trout season is September 30 every year and this year Chris and Amber treated staff to a fly-in trout lake before the end of the month. Chris flew the crew into Secret Lake # 27.5 and everyone hooked into the trout!! Kenna, in our reservations department, even got out of the office for the day and proved she could catch fish!! Our guides from Kettle Falls, Brian and David, joined them as well as Damien from Caribou. It was a super fun day!!