Happy New Year to all!  We hope you had a wonderful holiday season.  This year we celebrated Christmas with my parents, Rick and Lucile as well as my sister Kara and her husband Jeff along with there two daughters Kali and Ava. 

Mom and dad came out to the house shortly before 6:00am because as predicted the boys were awake and ready to start the festivities.  We all sat around the living room and watched four children 8 years and younger tie into their presents.  It was nice to share this moment together and see their excitement.  

 We made it out for many sleigh rides,  one afternoon we had a wiener roast on the ice at East Lake.  In the evening we enjoyed some sliding on our "man made"  sliding hill in the front yard, we even got grandpa to take a rip down it.  The darkness and silence was broken up by the surrounding Christmas lights and the sound of Christmas carols, squeals and laughter.   We even made it out to Pakwash for a little ice fishing one afternoon.  It was a lot of fun.

This year we made the trip back to Bill's home town, Fort Frances.  We brought in the New Year with great friends  and enjoyed spending sometime with family.  Landon and Carter got to play ice hockey on a frozen creek with their cousins, as well as slide and roast hot dogs over the fire.  We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day. 

We have had beautiful weather so far this winter.  Mostly in the  15F or warmer range.  With a few nights of -10F.  There is a little over  a foot of snow on the ground and about 19inches of ice out on Pakwash.   Our ice shack has been set up for a couple of weeks now and we had mom and dad out for our first fish fry yesterday...it was delicious!

We will be posting our 2012 season rates and sending out our 2012 confirmation letters shortly.  We wish only the best for you in this New Year and look forward to seeing you again this upcoming season.     

It is to our understanding that a letter is being mailed out in regards to your fishing licenses.  Everything is now going electronic.  You can either apply a head of time or you are welcome to bring your expired outdoors card and we can issue here at the office.  If you no longer have your expired outdoors card your drivers license will work as well.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact us via email info@troutriverlodge.ca or call our toll free  877-222-3265. 

We Wish You All The Best This Holiday Season!

With Fall shut down completed, we are able to step back and take in all of the great times we have had over the 2011 season. We have had many, many laughs and went through more than a few posts of coffee in early morning light. We have truly enjoyed visitng with all of you.

Shut down was a lot of hard work. We were fortunate that the weather held out for us, as we ran late in our season having a closing date of Oct 31. Our resident moose hunts were successful. This year Bill was unable to participate in the majority of the beaver trapping, however, Rick trapped a total of 55.

Landon and Carter are continuing to succeed in keeping us extremely busy and we are all enjoying spending more time together, the boys are at a really fun age. We are all anxiously awaiting the snow to fly so we can began our winter fun. We are anticipating a lof of snow machining, sliding, bomb fires and yes of course...Ice Fishing!

We hope you have all enjoyed your Fall thus far and may it lead into a beautiful winter and holiday season.