Slippery Winds Lodge News

We will be attending the following All Canada Shows in 2012.  Our booth listing will be under Great White North Wilderness Lodges.

• Chicago - January 12 - 15, 2012 at the Pheasant Run Resort Mega-Center, 4051 East Main Street, St. Charles, IL
  • Show hours: Thurs 5 - 9; Fri 3 - 9; Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 4
    

• Milwaukee - January 19 - 22, 2012 at the County Sports Complex, 6000 Ryan Rd, Franklin, WI
  • Show hours: Thurs 5 - 9; Fri 3 - 9; Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 4

• Green Bay - January 26 - 29, 2012 at Shopko Hall, 1901 Oneida Street, Green Bay, WI
  • Show hours: Thurs 5 - 9; Fri 3 - 9; Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 4

• Minneapolis - February 17 - 19, 2012 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center, 6155 Earle Brown Drive, Minneapolis, MN
  • Show hours: Fri 3 - 9; Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 4

Please drop by and visit us at our booth!

Tim Holschlag's May 24 - 29 Fly Fishing Seminar Sold Out!

Our spring flyfishing seminar is now sold out.  Due to additional demand we have added a second seminar which runs from May 19 to 24, 2012.  There are already 4 flyfishers booked for this trip and with a maximum of only 12 anglers per seminar spots will fill quickly.  For more information contact Slippery Winds Wilderness Lodge at the following email address:  info@gwnlodges.com, or contact Tim Holschlag at the Smallmouth Angler.

Click on the newsletter thumbnail or on the link below to download Slippery Winds 2011 fall newsletter.

May 27, 2011

Well, our 2011 season is now officially underway.  On May 17th lodge manager, Bruce Burron, and I drove from Winnipeg to Fort Frances with our trucks and trailers loaded with supplies for the upcoming season.  We met-up with Barry, Jackie, Shelly, Clyde and Annette in Fort Frances.  The morning of May 18th dawned clear and calm - making for ideal conditions to transfer supplies via boat into the lodge.  After an early breakfast we drove north from Fort Frances along highway 502 and then down the Cedar Narrows logging road to the Straw Lake boat landing where we would start unloading and hauling supplies across Straw Lake and into the lodge.

Opening the camp went as smoothly as can be expected.  Within a short while we had the generators fired-up to provide electricity to the lodge and cabins for our freezers, coolers, lights, etc.  By late afternoon the water pump had been installed and the water purification system operating without a hitch.

Our first guests arrived on May 20th.  They had been iced-out of an outpost camp in northern Manitoba, so opted to visit us at Slippery Winds.  The group may have preferred the lack of structure of an outpost, but certainly enjoyed the great meals and housekeeping service provided at our American-Plan lodge.  The fellows wanted to concentrate on walleye, so spent most of thier time on Yoke Lake, which is know for producing good numbers of big walleye.  After a couple of days of exploring the and experimenting with baits the fellows located their own hot spots and started catching walleye.  They reported catching and releasing numerous walleye in the 25" - 30" range during their time at the lodge.  The group also enjoyed some excellent smallmouth fishing on Yoke Lake. 

Tim Holschlag, owner of Smallmouth Angler, author and flyfishing guide is now at Slippery Winds hosting a group of flyfishers.  This is Tim's 9th annual trip to Slippery Winds.

Winter Fuel Haul for Slippery Winds.

We just finished hauling fuel into the lodge this past weekend.  The weather was perfect - sunny and cold with the morning temperature starting out at -5 F.  As the day progressed it did warm up to close to the freezing mark.  If definitely is a late spring in Northwestern Ontario.  Straw Lake was still frozen solid right to the shore.  Checking the depth of ice on Yoke Lake we found there is at least 24 inches of solid ice in our bay and in the main part of the lake past the narrows.

It still looks like winter at the lodge with the snow almost three feet deep in the open areas of the yard.  The docks are still under about a foot of snow.

Other than a couple of minor problems the fuel haul went well.  Now we are just waiting for warm weather to arrive and the ice to start melting.  It will definitely be a late ice-out for us. 

We'll keep you posted as we approach the start of the fishing season.

Slippery Winds 2011 Big Fish Log

To view / download Slippery Winds 2011 "Big Fish Log" please click on the link below

2010 Big Fish Log

Follow the link below to view our 2010 Big Fish Log in PDF format.  Our guests have already caught and released some great fish including a 44" muskie, 40" northern pike, 20" smallmouth, several 18-1/2" largemouth, a few 28" walleye and a 32-1/2" lake trout.