John, Pam (Schluter), Johnathan Smylie were the first to arrive at Rainy Lake Houseboats on Saturday afternoon. Jeff and Karen Schluter, Dave and Hunter Schluter , and Paul Schluter arrived shortly after. We left the docks about 2;00 PM and cruised toward Kempton Channel. We ended up mooring at Kempton Entrance South one of many […]

Gus and Sharon Armstrong arrived at Rainy Lake Houseboats on Saturday, The rest would arrive on Sunday morning. Doug and Tammy Bloss, their sons Ryan wife Jamie, Matt wife Melissa, and Troy, Patrick and Nicole Armstrong, their sons Brian, Brandon, and Cole would make the group up this year. Bernie Lessard was the chef for […]

July 22, 2013 Tony Dahl and guests Tom, Mike, Tom, Al, and Gary arrived Sunday evening.  The group dined at Thunderbird Lodge and spent the night on the Chairman II.  We left port at 7:30 AM and headed for Brule Narrows. We had a forecast calling for some rain and 10-15 mph northwest winds.  Half […]

I have been conversing with Bill for a good part of the winter about him bringing his daughters, their husbands, and grand kids to Rainy Lake Houseboats for a week. In the past I have fished with Bill during the month of  May. Kevin Erickson and I met them at the Idle Hour Bay mooring […]

Jason and his customers came from all parts of Texas, Grapevine, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Houston. We left port on the Chairman II Thursday morning. Breakfast was served under way and our mooring location was Hitchcock Bay East. Jason had set up a fishing contest for the trip. Every walleye over 15” was measured […]

We hosted Rainy Lake Oil for four days on the Chairman II.  Larry and Steve have been using the Chairman for the past three years. The trips are different than regular trips in the respect that they bring in guests for a day and a half and then bring in new guests. We get to […]

I had a treat in store for me on this trip. Ladd Ojala a former guide at Rainy Lake Houseboats was coming to fish with me for two days. He brought Reynold Lofgren from Littlefork, Minnesota and Tom Jackson from Minneapolis. Ladd last guided with me in 1994. He moved on to a successful career […]

Frank and his partner Tony rented our two-person boat for a week fishing on Rainy Lake. Frank and Tony like to fish with artificial baits. We started in the weedy bays casting for northern. We saw what Frank called “zoomers” small pike flashing like lightning at the Johnson Silver Minnow. We moved out into Cranberry […]

Our friends from AFG started arriving about 11:00 AM on Tuesday morning. The last arrivals were in by 2:00 PM. We left port with the Chairman and two Lady of the Lakes by 2:20 PM. We had seventeen guests on the three houseboats with two guests meeting us at our mooring spot. We were moored […]

June 24, 2013 Bart Olek and his family came to Casa Loma on Saturday June 22, 2013.  I was scheduled to take his relatives fishing on Monday. Bart and his dad Sonny would follow along. I was going to do things a little different than I may do on a houseboat. We decided to head […]