August 1 (Sat). Meet Rod Ury, Mike Ury, Dave Linder, Ryan (son) at landing and proceed to island.
August 13 (Thursday). Take Rod, Mike, Dave and Ryan to landing and return to island alone.
August 16 (Sun). Dick Berreth arrives at island with Myron Pomrenke (neighbor) via his sports canoe.
August 21 (Fri). Leave island at 6:30 AM. Very smooth trip with clear weather. Sprinkles at 2 mile island while stowing boats. Drive to Brabant for evening. Dick stored his fish at store so we had to wait until after 8AM in next day to leave for LaRonge.
August 22 (Sat) Breakfast in LaRonge and start drive home and over nighted in Sidney. August 23 (Sun). Drove to Gillette where transmission blew out at gas station about 1PM. Towed to transmission shop and over nighted at motel. August 24 (Mon). Rented car and drove to Boulder
September 4 (Friday) Betty and Don drove to Gillette to retrieve repaired Suburban. Trip went smoothly with no unusual events.
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Rod’s Suburban in North Plate, loaded for the trip north.
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Dave Linder and his son Ryan ready for the trip north.
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Rod always bring his own gasoline north. Ryan doesn’t look heavy enough to level the truck.
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Rod tows the canoe to the island.
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Dave, Ryan and Don are in the lead boat going to the island.
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Dave Linder looks happy.
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Dave looks east to check out the weather.
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Canoe being towed about 6 miles from the landing. Rod passed Don’s boat and has left them in his “dust”, barely discernible a mile in the rear.
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Rod is still in the lead but we are running out of daylight, not an unusual condition it seems.
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Mike Ury, Ryan and Don pull alongside.
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Rod at the “Honey Hole” with a very nice walleye. Note how high the water is flowing down the secondary rapids.
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Rod does look happy.
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Ryan extracts his jig from a walleye.
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Ryan and his Walleye.
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Rod drives the boat to the “Honey Hole” for some fishing.
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Ryan has another walleye while Mike and Dave fish from the other boat.
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Ryan is pretty happy with his catch.
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Ryan and Dave back at the island with a couple nice stringers of supper.
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Mike like his stringer too.
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Mike with one of the larger Walleye.
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Rod and Mike with the Walleyes brought back from the “Honey Hole”.
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Dave and Ryan with the walleyes ready to be cleaned.
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Rod with Walleyes.
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Mike has another nice Walleye.
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Dave and son Ryan are catching Walleyes too.
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Mike is a picture of contentment.
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Dave and Ryan on the trip make to the island.
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Mike displays their nice stringer.
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Rod wants his involvement recorded too.
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Dave and Rod get the fish ready to clean.
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Rod looks pretty happy with the fishing.
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Rod and Dave.
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Mike and Walleyes.
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Dave and fish.
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Don reads.
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Mike is ready for supper.
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So is Ryan.
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Ryan and Dave relax before supper.
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Dave is back fishing at the “Honey Hole”.
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Ryan and Mike in front of the secondary rapids.
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Ryan back at the beach.
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Mike with the catch of the day.
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Rod with the catch of the day.
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Mike and Rod. It is always nice to see brothers fishing together.
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Dave and Ryan with catch of the day.
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Don is still stuck in his chair.
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Ryan relaxes.
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Ryan has some bites on his leg above where his socks were. This is why you need some spray on your legs or wear long pants.
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Dave, Mike and Ryan fishing in the backwater below Wilson Rapids. Always a good spot to catch a bigger Northern.
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Don on the way to the “Honey Hole”.
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Mike, Dave and Ryan also going fishing at the “Honey Hole”.
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Don has a fish on.
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Oh crap, a snake. He was looking for a Walleye.
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Dave on his way fishing again.
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Rod, you’re going fishing in Canada….not Hawaii.
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Ryan and Mike are going fishing too.
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Beautiful sunset.
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Looking down the lake toward “Ice Island” and the way to the landing.
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Rod shows off his weeklong beard.
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Rod, Mike, Dave, Don and Ryan.
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Rod always likes to have one “gag” photo but not everyone cooperates.
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We finally caught a Pine Marten. They are very common in this area and are usually found on “Dancing Loon Island”. They are excellent hunters; squirrels are a favorite prey and have little chance of out running a Pine Marten in a tree. They usually help themselves to any fish we leave on a stringer or uncovered fish guts left over from cleaning our fish. Pine Martens are trapped regularly by the Natives. In Russia, these same animals are called Sables.
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They have a real “attitude” when caged, making a loud hissing sound, however, when the trap door is opened they scoot out with no inclination to attach the hand that opens the door.
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Dave enjoys the sun while going for Walleyes.
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Ryan knows how to relax too.
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Mike took a lot of video.
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Rod and a nice sting of Walleyes.
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Rod with Walleyes from the other boat.
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Ryan, Don and Mike relax on the front deck.
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Dave joins in the conversation too. Note the steel wheel behind the cooler that Dave is sitting on. These wheels now are installed on the end of the portable pier. and allow it to be rolled in and out according to the changes in water level. One of these wheels was “barrowed” by the Indians to use as an anchor for their fish nets. After being “lost” for several years, it was recently recovered and is now fulfilling the function they were brought to the island to fulfill.
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Ryan, Don and Mike on the deck.
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Don also needs a shave.
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Rod joins the deck discussion.
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Rear deck and the “new” LP refrigerator.
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New refrigerator is extremely handy. It can be turned up to where it almost freezes the contents (in addition to the freezer compartment) which is nice for preparing the fish going back home.
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Newly installed skirt on the southeast side of the cabin.
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Newly installed skirt on the southeast side of the cabin. Note sprayer can used to spray Clorox on the logs to bleach them.
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Ryan and Dave helped install the skirt.