Deer in Distress

Some recent guests were fishing on Indian Lake when they saw a strange sight. A deer was swimming across a large expanse of water which was about 100 feet deep. It surprised Scott Skrzypcak and his son Tyler who happened to have a camera on hand to record the event.
You can see the progression of the tale in the series of pictures above.
In the first picture you see Tyler on the right watching the deer crossing the lake. In the second picture, the deer is nearing land, but unfortunately, it is a rock wall. They are wondering how he is ever going to get out of the lake. In the third picture, in the center of the picture, you can see some splashing. He is trying hard to get up on the rocks and onto higher ground. In the fourth picture, he finally made it up out of the water and to safety. They figured there must have been some wolves after it to make it flee in such a way. It is quite unusual to even see deer around here, because we tend to have a higher Moose population in this area. What an interesting experience to add to the fishing fun.

Make My Day

Gerald Weaver of Park Rapids,MN (top picture on left)came across some pretty good sized Lake Trout yesterday. He caught all three weighing 9,12 and 15 pounds. With a big smile on his face, he told John that it made his day.
Gerald's Dad, Jim Weaver, and other relatives are also staying here at camp. In fact there are four generations of Weavers here. Jim is 89 years old and has been coming up to this area to fish for many years. Apparently he caught his limit of Walleye right away on his first day of fishing before anyone else got their limit. Jim's grandsons Jason and Greg and his children got some nice catches too.
Sonya and Bucky, pictured with a walleye and Northern Pike, are also from Gerald's group.

Latest Food Update

I just heard from a fellow Ontario camp owner that it is now permissible for tourists coming across the border to bring potatoes with them. I called Canadian Customs myself just to validate the story. It is true. Each person is allowed to bring up to 10 pounds of U.S. grown potatoes that are commercially bagged. So the ban has been lifted. I thought that might be of interest to some people.

It's a Tie

Who has reeled in the longest Northern Pike so far this year at Agimac River Outfitters? Well, it's a tie between Aaron Casetta and Gary Ziegler. They both had quite a time wrestling with these monsters to finally tire them and land them in the boat. Aaron's weighed in at 25 pounds and Gary's was 20 pounds. Needless to say, they were both pretty happy campers and went home with some mighty big fish stories to tell. Aaron is in the top picture, Gary in the second picture and a group shot with Gary's Pike in the bottom picture.

Look at dem Lakers

It's been an exciting opener for fishing this year- fabulous weather combined with outstanding fishing. Our guests are getting good results in Indian Lake as well as all the surrounding lakes. John keeps busy emptying the barrels in the fish cleaning house and gets a good look at what's coming in.
Three gentlemen who stayed with us the second week of fishing hooked these Lakers on Indian.
On the top picture,left to right,it is Bob Brogan from Wisconsin, Lance Goetzman from Wisconsin and Jim Kellam from Florida.
They were mighty pleased as you can see from the photo.

They're Growing Fast

The sled dog puppies are now about three and a half weeks old and are they growing fast. Eat, sleep, poop- that's all they do. Leia, the female, is quiet and chubby from head to paw, wobbling her way around till she wears out and has to sit down again. Vader, the black male, is active and very vocal about everything. Joanna spends lots of time handling, loving, and socializing them to acclimate them to humans. They crawl on her, nuzzle in close, and after playing for awhile, they peacefully fall asleep. Puppies are lots of fun.

Road to North End of Kukukus Lake

We have been wanting to check out the road to the north end of Kukukus and the boat landing there, ever since we heard there was a bad wash out and campers actually got stranded last summer.

The MNR told us they did a repair job on the road last fall, so this spring John, Joanna and I loaded into our old, four wheel drive pickup and headed north on the 325 road.

The road was good for about 13 miles until we came to the repaired washout. It is quite an interesting repair job. The spillway is still open for water to flow through and the sides of the banks are packed with rocks about five to six inches in diameter. The banks are fairly steep making us wonder how in the world a person could ever pull a boat on a trailer through there without getting hung up. (In fact we did get hung up there on our way out with our plow frame pushing up logs and trees that had been packed in the dip for winter usage. We were sitting there in our truck in the middle of the spillway with water running under the truck. John and Joanna climbed onto the hood of the truck to get across without walking in the water and pulled the debris out of the way.)

We continued on down the road to the boat landing on Kukukus. There were several other tricky spots, one where the beaver dam alongside the road is about five feet higher than the road itself. One would hope that it never breaks open or the road would be under water for sure. The other spot was a creek crossing, but it was navigable with care.

The pictures give you a pretty good idea of what the difficult spots look like. We thought it might be of interest to those who like to fish Kukukus.