July 11th: The weather has turned back to normal and so has the fishing!! It took a while for the fishing to recover, but yesterday we caught 8 trophy Pike. In 2 hours last night in the "cabbage" weeds one boat landed 4 trophy Pike, a 41, two 42's and a 44 incher. I'm looking forward to getting those pictures.

By popular request, here are a few more pictures:

Bob Weikel, with a nice Walleye in June.	Winston, the guide with another trophy Walleye in early June.
A young bull Moose swims across the river. Notice the small rack, it looks like a second set of ears.

July 15: Good fishing today! One guest came in reporting two forty inch Pike within 10 minutes of each other. Another guest caught a 41 inch Pike on his first cast this morning. The weather has been great, a new forest fire started up yesterday, but it looks to be far enough from the lodge. A huge 46 inch Pike was caught yesterday along with a 42 inch Pike. The Lake Trout have been slow, but the Walleye are still hitting.

Check out last week's 44 inch Pike:

July 19th: What a great week we just had!! Two 46 inch Pike, a 45 inch Pike and a 30 inch Walleye were all caught and released on Bolton Lake this week. In addition, a group of 4 from California caught and released 8 trophy Pike and a trophy Whitefish at Aswap this week. Their biggest was a 48 incher, followed by a 45 inch Pike. It was an extra pleasant week because my family came up for a few days including my wife (Jodi), my mom (Roberta), my sister (Cathy), her fiance (Ifty), my brother (Greg) and my father (Brian). Unfortunately, we only fished a couple of days and we did not manage to catch any trophies, but that's okay, I'd rather see our guests catch the big ones instead of the freeloaders :). We did manage to catch plenty of Walleye, thanks mainly to Jodi and her wicked ugly jigs, and we were able to join some of the guests for shorelunch.

Yesterday we had 42 people at shorelunch, the entire staff was invited out for lunch by the group of 20 anglers known as Specialty Sport Tours. SST has been coming up since 1996 and with each visit their group becomes more like family. At the end of the week they have an awards show that began before they starting coming to Bolton, but has grown into a huge performance including singing, acting and a bunch of great jokes. All the staff look forward to seeing their friends from SST and especially the awards show to see how Winston, Marcel, Yvon and the rest of the guides and staff will be embarrassed. I especially enjoyed giving out the largest bar bill award last night, thanks again Roger! Here are a few pictures from this past week to enjoy.

Jim Florczak with one of the 46 inch Pike caught this week.

Rambo, aka George with a Brook Trout from the God's River Flyout.

Marcel with a trophy Walleye caught by Jerry Strutz.

Most of the gang at the huge shorelunch.

Stuart Zimmerman as David Letterman doing his monologue and top ten list during the awards show. Trophies went to:

July 29th: The weather has been so hot lately that staff and guests are swimming just about every night. High sun and no wind has slowed the fishing, but we're still pulling an average of 2 trophies a day. It's raining today, but the forecast is calling for more sunny hot weather towards the end of the week. Here are a couple more pictures that were just sent to me from a guest who was at Bolton in early July.