We were able to plow Perch Parkway on Monday but there was a rough water spot out about 27-28 feet which we have stayed off of to let it freeze down. We pulled some houses out over the bad spot today and it was solid. We will pull out there and we are past the 28-31 foot break, all the way to 34 ft. in the mud.
We have not plowed Tullibee Trail yet, mainly because we ran out of time and also because of the Very strong winds for tonight and especially on Thursday. It would just blow shut. I do not think we will have time to plow it on Friday because we will be plowing the other roads, doing driveways, and putting rentals in. We will get to it as soon as possible.
We also plowed part of Walleye Drive. We had a road from Lake Street going southeast we called Rental B. It stopped at Walleye Drive near the south end of Agate Bay Reef. We were able to extend Walleye Drive north from that intersection about 250 yards before the snow and other problems stopped us. We will probably not plow that all the way north to our main road. If you go on Walleye Drive, you will have to go around via Lake Street to get there, at least for now. We will pull houses in there now. Going south from that intersection, we hit a very large area of water and slush which we are allowing to freeze. I believe we will be able to go south on Walleye Drive this weekend but maybe only be able to put houses on the west side of the road. There is a lot of snow and water east of Walleye Drive, especially where we normally put Flamingo Drive. We will not be putting that road where it has been in the past. We could run a road north of where it has been about 50 yards, but we will not be getting south of that. There may be a chance for a road going east quite a bit south of where the old road was in the past, but I am not sure because the water kept us from going south of the intersection yet.
We have made the decision to stop carrying bait during the winter. It was a tough decision, but our minnow tank is getting old and we have quite a bit of loss due to dead minnows to the point of not making any money off bait. It is very expensive to replace our tanks and we do not see the cost/benefit to doing so. There are several bait shops in the area who do a good job. If you are coming from the south, try Rod's Bait or Johnson's Portside, both of which are in Isle. If you are coming from the north, try either Malmo Market or Westerlund's in Malmo. I know all of these people and they will treat you right.
