Little Moose Lodge Box 5 RR Site 2 Emo, ON P0W 1E0 Ph. (807)482-2063 Toll Free 1-866-597-7171 www.littlemoose.com littlemooselodge@littlemoose.com
December 6, 2006 Dear Friends of Little Moose Lodge
2006 is drawing to a close, and we would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you, who have stayed with us, a wonderful holiday season, and health and happiness in 2007.
We have completed our second season as owners of Little Moose Lodge successfully. Our guest list doubled that of our first season in 2005! We would like to acknowledge the Beckel, Hoeft, McGinty, Thompson, Violante, Hoggren, Blue, Wallace, Kolodka, Barth, Reiner, Thomas, Bradley, Hartmann and Wahl parties who have been coming to Little Moose Lodge since we have been owners and most of you for years and even decades! A special thank you to Cal Janisch, a former lodge owner (1977-87) who has been an invaluable source of information on his visit’s here the past two years.
We continually upgrade our website, so check it out often. Thank you to those who have sent us letters and pictures of your vacation at Little Moose Lodge. It means a lot to us that you share your memories long after your vacation’s are over.
Although not as overwhelmed as our rookie season, we were definitely busy. Some of the things accomplished this past season were new shingles on cabins #7; #8 and most recently cabin #1 and the gazebo which were completed in between snowfalls and Indian summer October weather. We also installed a new ultra-violet filtered water system, new refrigerators and mattresses in half our cabins.
We will continue with improvements in 2007, including furnishing the remainder of our cabins with new refrigerators, adding more new mattresses and general upgrades to keep our cabins comfortable for you, our guests. We have replaced the Suzuki motors on our Misty River boats with new Yamaha 30 HP electric start four stroke motors. Also, in the plans this spring is to build an addition on to Cabin #8 so it will sleep 8 persons and shingle cabins #3 and #5 in the fall.
It is still pending with the MNR, but we have applied for boat caches on Beadle and Loonhaunt lakes, were keeping our fingers crossed.
Many of our guests have requested hats and tee shirts; we will have them available for 2007.
This past season weather was beautiful, but a little too dry, as we only had about five rainfalls through to August. This inconvenienced us at times with fire bans, low water levels on our lakes and at times some tough fishing in the dog days of summer. With water surface temperatures reaching 75 degrees F, it sure made for some great fun playing in the water.
Walleye fishing was really good from May opener through the end of June, some really large ones were caught in this time frame by our guests. Barry Lafond caught the largest, within sight of the lodge; it was 32” and weighed just over 10 pounds! Justin Carpenter 29”, Jeff Krisik 30” and your host Terry’s 30” walleye were all just shy of that double digit 10 pound mark. There was a lot of walleye between 25’ and 28” caught by our guests this past season. The best walleye bite was from late August through to October where they were stacked in 30 feet of water and you would catch 15-20 eye’s per hour.
Smallmouth bass fishing was excellent throughout most of the season, with the largest ones caught in June, in the first week, Barb Hoggren caught a 21” slab, and in the second week Susan Krisik caught a 21” hog, both these trophies were released back into Clearwater Lake.
Muskie fishing wasn’t too popular with most of our guests, but some huge ones were still caught. George Roach caught and released a 52” monster at the north end of Clearwater Lake, and honorable mention goes to Jason Gyulay who lost a lengthy battle with a 50” plus brute, maybe next year!
As with the Muskie fishing, the Lake trout fishing on Pipestone Lake was popular with several fishing parties. The Richardson’s as well as the Wahl family did very well this year, the largest was caught by Bill Wahl, a gorgeous 32” brute.
Our sincere apology if we forgot to mention your large fish, we have several hundred guests and are going by memory and our guest book.
Northern Pike fishing was hit and miss all season, some good numbers were caught on Panarama. Only a few large gators’ were caught though including Scott Halders 15 lb fish from Footprint Lake and Terry’s 38” pike caught in May on Panarama Lake.
We will not be at any trade shows this winter, both Terry and Monica are living and working in Edmonton, Alberta. Both our daughters Kristy and Terrilyn are attending university in Edmonton. Our camp dogs Daisy and Bailey are doing well at a relative’s acreage. We can still be reached here either by email or our toll free phone number. If you are attending any of the All Canada shows early in 2007, you may want to stop by the booths to apply for your passports if you don’t have one. Effective in 2008 they will be required if crossing the border by land.
We promise the service and friendliness we have established the past two years will continue, and we are looking forward to your company in the ’07 season!
Your hosts Monica ,Terry, Kristy and Terrilyn Berryman
