2011 Christmas Tree Expedition

December 24th, 2011

We had a great trip on a Sunday afternoon in our annual search for our Christmas tree. After a walk through the woods several miles south of the lodge we found our tree and had a great weiner roast and toasted marshmallows. Sadie our yellow lab didn’t venture far from us as there were a lot of fresh wolf tracks all around where we stopped for lunch.

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2011 Blog Update

December 21st, 2011

The season is finally over and we are already preparing for 2012. We have a new brochure in the works and it will be ready for our sport shows starting in mid January in Chicago. The 2011 season has turned out to be the best fishing year to date. We thought we couldn’t match last year but it surpassed it in both fishing and weather. We will be posting as many pictures as we can. We just sent out our Christmas package and we again requested that you please forward as many pictures as you can! We have completed the recroom and most of the exterior of the new Lodge. We will be posting some of these as well as a number of non fishing pictures.

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Additional 2010 Pictures

December 27th, 2010

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Chris Pronger Family Fishing Trip

December 19th, 2010

Chris Pronger is from Dryden, Ontario ( 30 minutes east of resort ) and has had an outstanding career playing hockey in the NHL. He has won numerous awards for excellence during his career and was a key member of the Canadian Olympic team this past winter in Vancouver when they won the Gold medal. Chris has been in three Stanley Cup finals in the last four years and was successful in winning with the Anaheim Ducks. He is playing for the Philadelphia Flyers and they have been having another great season so far. We wish him another successful season!

Chris, his brother Sean( 11 year NHL career ) along with four others dads, visited our resort last summer with 10 of their children. They had a great time and Chris has reserved a week in 2011.

Testimonial from Chris Pronger: ” From the week long family trip to the weekend fishing trip with your friends, Cedar Point Lodge has something for everyone! We stayed in the Loon’s Nest Cabin and what a treat that was. I was at Cedar Point Lodge with 10 kids and 6 adults and we all managed to find our own space in the cabin. Many of the kids had not been fishing before and of course the guides got us onto some fish right away. My niece Kaia Pronger ( Sean’s daughter ) caught a 28″ Walleye. She was grinning from ear to ear not even knowing what she had caught. It was larger than any Walleye her dad has ever caught. Just a subtle jab! Where or how do I begin to talk about the food and service…..ALL EXCELLENT. We were served remarkable meals and if we ever needed anything there was never a question, just a simple ” we will get that right to you”. That is what separates Cedar Point Lodge from many of the resorts I have been to. A family friendly type atmosphere with the simple goal of making sure you leave with a smile on your face and a belly full of fish!! Is there a better way to leave than that? “

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2010 Hunting

December 18th, 2010

We had a good hunting season in 2010. The weather was above normal ( broke 56 year record in November ) but we did see success with our hunters although numbers of hunters were down substantially for the season. We had a number of first time deer hunters to our lodge and many shot personal bests and plan on returning to do even better. A majority of the deer taken were in the first day or two of their hunt. I believe the overall success in the area was good from discussions with other outfitters. I know of at least four deer taken in our area that were pushing close to the 190 class which is world class anywhere. We had only one bear hunter this season and as he will attest, our next season will be excellent. We had a number of descent bears on camera this season with several coloured. The above pictures will show some of the successful hunters from this season. We will soon have more under the hunting section in our web site. Our bookings for next season already are above last years totals so hopefully the economy is turning around. Call us about a 2011 hunt!

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The New Lodge

December 17th, 2010

The above pictures show our ” New Lodge “. We have added onto what was our lodge 31 years ago and have come up with a beautiful new lodge with a spectacular view of Eagle Lake! We hope to have completed the construction by our opening in 2011.

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2010 Season

December 16th, 2010

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The 2010 season has come to a close. The season proved to be one of the best fishing seasons we have had to date. We average approx. 80% repeat business each season and the most common comment we had this season from especially our long time repeat guests was that it was their best year! We really believe that the conservation measures that have been in place for over twenty years has had a huge impact on the resource. The slots sizes protect the spawning fish as well as the protection of trophy sized fish. Most camps on the lake do not allow the processing of trophy fish and they can only be kept for a trophy mount or increasingly popular, they are released and a replica is made instead. Our son caught and released a 32 1/4″ Walleye this fall and we will be getting a ” flex fish” replica made for the new lodge.

The above array of pictures will show some of the successes of our guests and we will post more as we receive them. Thanks again for all those who were able to visit with us this past season and we look forward to the 2011 season. There will not be a price increase for 2011 and we will be offering the same specials (as detailed in our rates) as we have offered the last two years!

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The Rest of the story! 2009

December 24th, 2009

Well my first year at blogging didn’t go so well. I will have my daughter do it this coming season. I would again like to thank all our guests for making it a good season even in these tough economic times. Here are some of the pictures sent to us from the rest of the season.

Great Fishing on Eagle Lake Ontario

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Week #12 Fishing Report on Eagle Lake Ontario

August 10th, 2009

(August 1-8/2009) This week turned out to be a lot nicer in weather than the previous week and some of the best overall fishing we’ve had! We had a number of trophy fish caught and had guests do well on Lake Trout, Musky, Walleye and Northern Pike. I don’t think we did much with the Smallmouth this week. As usual we had a number of long time guests with us this week and special recognition to the Smith family with 30 years with us and the Jonynas Party who missed a few years with us but have become regulars again,thanks!

The Ross family,have come up the last several years with third generation fisherman as well as a number of others. Dale and Bill finished their week off strong after a slower start. We had some great fishing in some of the out lakes as well as great structure fishing and after dinner fishing. The evening fishing produced some of the best numbers of trophy Walleye with the majority of them released. There were a few kept for trophy mounts. We’ll have to work on promoting the replicas as they are definitely the way to go with the technology there is today with graphite and flex fish replicas. We look forward to those pictures being sent to us for this weeks success stories!

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Week #11 Fishing Report on Eagle Lake Ontario

August 8th, 2009

(July 25-August 1st/2009) Guess what, it rained! What can you say except there were a lot of great people who fished through it! It rained sometime during each day and everyday this week. We had a great group of people and we still managed to get some descent fish. We had a higher number of Canadian guests this week and our son Ryan met some great friends from Calgary, Alberta that were participating in a hockey school with him in Vermilion Bay. His hockey buddy Jason from Chicago and team mate Josh from Dryden also participated in the school. Puck Masters ( Illinois based company) has put the school on the last 5 years. Thanks to a 1.2 million dollar grant to the Vermilion Bay Arena, it was held in Vermilion Bay. We had three couples celebrating Anniversary’s this week with a 40, 26 and 13 year celebrations. Congratulations to all three couples and we wish you many more- especially at Cedar Point Lodge!

We had some descent Walleye caught off of structure but still pulling them out of 10-12′ in the edge of weeds. The Orde’s were on the Smallmouth this week using slip bobbers in bays close to rock points. A few people were working Muskies and raising some nice ones but none boated over 45″.

Nice smallmouth bass caught on Eagle Lake

Walleye Fishing at Cedar Point Lodge

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