Ice Out Update…7.0

Some warm days and sunshine are starting to work their magic on the ice. It’s looking very grey and melting away from shore. Waterfowl is congregating around the open water in the creek, and Romeo, the lone Great Blue Heron is once again taking up his position. Let’s see some shots from around the lodge…

Tales From The Lodge…

Last week I mentioned the idea of having guests send up a short story that might be of interest to readers of the VBL blog. Here’s the first of hopefully many more in an interesting series…

Bob Swanson’s VBL Story starts here…

—  My daughter Noelle, came up to me one day and said “I want to go fishing in Canada and I want to catch a muskie”  Now I haven’t been to Canada fishing for about 10 years and I really wanted to go so I said Hell yeah lets go.  I knew I wanted to come back to Eagle Lake but where to stay? I had been to other places on the lake but wasn’t sure I wanted to bring my daughter there.  Then I remembered reading some posts from a guy named Gord on Walleye Central. He sounded legit and had a resort on Eagle. The rest is history–5 years later all 3 of my daughters come with every summer and we have a great time. I even told them they have to spread my ashes on a few select spots on Eagle and drink an ice cold Kokanee!  Really bummed that I can’t make it for opening week this year due to corona virus but will be there in August to squeeze 2 weeks of fishing into one!

Who is Bob Swanson?…

Bob’s bio is short and incomplete. A man of mystery, a VBL guest, and a man willing to put pen to paper….thank you Bob!

So there you have it folks. An ice out update, the first of a new ” Tales from the Lodge” segment, and some hope that we can all be fishing again soon!