What's Happening at Halley's

This April we were prepping for the season and replenishing dishes at the fly-in cabins, along with some new beds and nightstands.

The weather was fantastic for working outside so Gene, Kirk and Jamie moved new boats into Moosehorn. The shiny new boats are impressive— they’ll provide our guests with the ultimate comfort while fishing at our outposts. The old boats are still good and we’ll put them to good use at our fly-in lakes. With all that work crossed off their list for the day, why not sled over to a perfectly good walleye lake, wet a line and catch fresh supper? Yumm-O!

At the start of March we literally had one man living on One Man Lake island! Kirk, one of our pilots from the past two summers, has made the lodge his residence again until May when he starts flying again. Construction really picked up the first week of March, with all of the guest room ceilings being replaced with new insulation and pine boarding. The walls were stripped out, sound-proof insulation was added and covered with thick drywall. While that was being done we replaced all of the headboard lights and installed USB plug-ins above the new night stands. The guest rooms look amazing. The game rooms and dining room had new carpet installed, which looks dynamite! The overhaul was needed and we thank everyone who put their time and effort into making it spectacular!

March is the best month (we think) to ice fish—the weather is beautiful, there isn’t too much snow and slush on the lakes, and the fish are hungry! All of us have had a chance to head out fishing for some sort of species this month: walleyes, northern pike, and trout. Our favorite bait of choice is still a jig and a minnow. Check out this video featuring the kids and a big northern!

Wow, what a March we had, with warm temperatures during the day and cool at night—keeping the ice nice and strong. Good ice was a necessity as the guys were crossing it every day to work on One Man and the outposts. We had a lot of snow this winter and some of it started to melt, but we still have quite a bit in the bush and in the yards. The lakes (in late March) still had 30” of ice! But the melt is about to begin—temperatures at the end of March were around mid 50°F and rising!