What's Happening at Halley's

April was a gorgeous month for weather! We were able to work on our cabin across the ice at Dufault’s Island and see the progress daily. Chris, Jaden, Amber, Lisa, Gene and more were able to roll up their sleeves to get items crossed off the “to-do list.” The guests at Dufault’s Island Outpost are going to enjoy the new beautiful cabin. Here is a picture of the kitchen and some other amazing amenities!

The cabin will feature a large deck facing the lake and a sunporch that will be enclosed where our kitchen table will be to hold groups of 6-12 fishermen! We look forward to sharing our progress with you all!

When we left Dufault’s on the last day before ice out, we tried getting as much as we could done. Plumbing, the deck, the new sunroom windows and some other projects await but we should have a week to get them done before fishermen get there!

Many people are inquiring about the ice conditions. The ice should melt soon as we have had hot sunny weather! On these hot days, the sun warms up the bush and trees and then with the wind blows the nice warm air over the ice speeding up the melting process.

We are getting ready for the season and many of you should be starting to receive our emails in April for your trips in May and June. Bring on the fishing season!!

We have lots of fishermen that ask us when the best time is to come fishing. Well, for pike fishermen we generally tell them the first 4 weeks of season is prime as the pike are in the shallows and casting is absolutely thrilling. The pike fishing is consistent through the summer with some of the largest being caught in July and August. Lots of artificial bait will work well for the summer/fall pike fishing with Rapalas or stick baits. For the walleye fishing, the fish are shallow in the spring-jigging or casting/throwing works great at this time of year.  The walleye fishing is pretty incredible throughout the summer with the fish around the reefs and on humps from last week of June into September. The cool moving current on our waters of the English River ensures great fishing throughout our fishing season. Smallmouth bass are always fun in early season but as the summer sets in and out, the fishing is stellar! We suggest Mepps, Ned rigs, plastics, plugs or a baited jig.   

Kettle Falls Lodge-our largest all-inclusive lodge that is either a fly in or boat in lodge-transportation from Kenora, ON or our Caribou Falls Landing, accommodations in private cabins, all meals including shore lunches, boat rental, guides, gas, ice, bait, drinks for the boat, rental rods and more!

Kettle Falls Lodge available dates:
May 23-31, 2025 for 2 fishermen
May 26-June 4, 2025 for 4-6 fishermen
June 1-7, 2025 for 4-6 fishermen
July 2-9, 2025 for 4-8 fishermen
July 15-22, 2025 for 6-22 fishermen
July 31-August 5, 2025 for 4-12 fishermen
August 18-25, 2025 for 6-14 fishermen
August 29-September 6, 2025 for 2-10 fishermen

Caribou Falls Landing-a do it yourself fishing trip-make your own schedule! This is a drive to lodge and fishermen can rent a cabin, bring your own boat or rent from us!

Caribou Falls Landing available dates:
May 17-24, 2025
June 7-14, 2025
June 12-19, 2025
July 25-August 1, 2025
August 16-23, 2025
August 30-September 6, 2025
September 6-11, 2025

One Man Lake Lodge-our smaller all-inclusive lodge that is either a fly in or boat in lodge-transportation from Kenora, ON or our Caribou Falls Landing, accommodations in rooms in the lodge, all meals including shore lunches, boat rental, gas, ice, bait, drinks for the boat, rental rods and more! Guides are optional at One Man!

One Man Lake Lodge available dates:
May 23-30, 2025 for 2-8 people
June 30-July 9, 2025 for 2-10 people
July 13-19, 2025 for 2-6 people
July 18-23, 2025 for 2-10 people
July 27-31, 2025 for 2-16 people
August 6-13, 2025 for 2-8 people
August 23-August 30, 2025 for 2-12 people

Fly in Remote Cabins/Outposts-we fly from down town KENORA!! We are on lakes that have fun fishing that have cabins that are fully equipped-ice, drinking water, flushing toilets (except Moosehorn), satellite phones, 16’ Boats and NEW motors & gas.

Fish species at our remote fly-ins: Rex Lake-bass & pike on main lake & the walleye, more bass and pike in portage lake, Trapline Lake-walleye & pike, Moosehorn-smallmouth bass & pike on main lake & trout in portage lake

Rex Lake from May 24-29, 2025 4-6 fishermen
Trapline Lake from May 23-27, 2025 for 6-12 fishermen
Rex Lake from June 28-July 5, 2025 for 4-6 fishermen
Moosehorn from July 8-15, 2025 for 2-4 fishermen
Moosehorn from July 15-22, 2025 for 2-4 fishermen
Rex Lake from September 11-19, 2025 for 4-6 fishermen

Give us a call at 1-800-465-3325 and Let’s Go Fishing!

We had a little hiccup in our newsletter delivery so we apologize that our newsletters were up on our website on time but the mail system that we use didn’t’ email them to all of you.

Well, we’ve had quite the sport show and fishing show run this January. It was so nice to see lots of our customers new and old! Here are a couple pictures on the road!

So many people kept talking about our amazing shore lunch photos! So here are some high lights of shore lunches over the summer! Also, note that our all-inclusive shore lunches they are done by group and its more personalized to your fishing party. If other parties meet at the lodges and request shore lunches together, we will arrange for that!

New AIRPLANE engine!

Our Cessna 206 got a new engine for 2025! You can see here that the new engine is in, and they are doing the last of the tune-ups! Chris is looking forward to flying with the new engine!

We have some wolf hunters coming up in February to have their fin and fur combo with us-fishing and hunting. We will post some of their trip highlights in February!! Hope it warms up some before then!

The posts have been up on our website for our newsletters but there was a glitch in emailing everyone our newsletters. This should be ready to send now and we are hoping it goes out finally!!!

ORIGINAL POST BELOW!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. We apologize for this newsletter going out late in January, we took some extra time for our family this holiday season. We had all the kids home for the holidays and it was great to spend some quality time with them!

We were gearing up for the Christmas season with the Kenora Christmas Parade. We had put our flatbed truck driven by Jonny with our big red shuttle boat in the parade. We had a bunch of our friends and staff out to be part of the parade-we even had some beach balls and a fire pit! We handed out a bunch of candy and toys for the kids. It was a great time! The theme of the parade was Christmas in July so that is why there was a mock shirt of a bikini and holding regular length rods with stuffed (toy) fish on them. We even had Santa holding a string of fish at the front of the boat!

We had little snow and some frigid temperatures, so Chris was able to drive to the new building at Dufault’s Island Outpost. He brought out the subflooring that will be installed during the winter.

Sport show runs start after New Years, and we are going to be off to Kansas, Shakopee, Milwaukee, Chicago and Iowa. Lots of smiles and miles for January!

With our season now complete, we look back at our busy season. Thank you to all of our guests and customers that enjoyed Halley’s Camps fishing and hunting this year!

Thank you to our staff for all your hard work and dedication to Halley’s Camps.

During this month of Thanksgiving, we hope everyone can take a moment to reflect on people, places, and things to be thankful for. Enjoy the warmth and time for family, friends and those who are near and dear to you!

We wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Chris, Amber, family and staff

Trophy Fish Lists

So, one more thing to be thankful for is our HUGE trophy list from our Halley’s Camps guests this year!

Our trophy fish list this year grew by 461 MORE trophy FISH in 2024 than the number of 2023 trophies registered!!

This year at Halley’s Camps there was a total of 1,642 trophy fish registered. Great job fishermen!!

Walleyes must be 27″. There were 567 walleyes registered.  The biggest walleye was 32.5″ caught by Rick Seidl.

Smallmouth bass must be 18″. There was a total of 784 bass registered. The biggest smallmouth bass was 21.5″ caught by Duane Nelson.

Northern pike must be 38″. There was a total of 289 pike registered. The biggest northern pike registered was a tie by 2 fishermen: Mark Mcfarland and Patrick Trainer each caught a 45″ northern pike.

Lake trout must be 30″. There were 2 lake trout registered. The biggest lake trout registered was a tie by 2 fishermen: Ron Lanners and Timothy Zoerb each caught a 30″ lake trout.

Our list will be posted ASAP on our homepage at www.halleyscamps.com