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The Fishing Forecast For Our 25th Season

Wow! I can’t believe it has been 25 years. It just doesn’t seem like a quarter of a Century ago on June 9, 1996, we were hurriedly nailing up the last of the trim in suite A, to receive our first group of guests. Those guys remained repeat clients for many years, and though we haven’t seen them recently, we sure have built a following of great people and friends from this business. The lodge has grown so much. I can remember when we used to raise a tarp on the Lakeside property if there was going to be rain [...]

Lessons From An Injury

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What my Achilles injury taught me On June 21, when I laid on my back with my right leg in a deep hole in extreme pain from what I quickly surmised was a complete Achilles tendon rupture, my summer changed drastically. My first thoughts were with God. I knew that somehow things would work out, and then I just had to trust. But, relatively quickly my mind went to troubleshooting and had to start grasping where to go next. The pain was too intense to even sit up as I would get lightheaded, so as I lay there I started [...]