The webcams now show the lake as 100% ice covered on the morning of the 9th. It usually gets thicker quickly at this point provided we do not get a big snowstorm.
The municipality held another invasive species meeting on Wednesday November 26th. The biggest outcome of the meeting was to create a spreadsheet under the control of the Clerk to gather and collate all of the information that each of the lakes has developed over the past few years so that knowledge can be easily shared.
The LWRA held a single subject board meeting the evening of the 9th to discuss access to Dixon Lake. The Board voted 7 to 3 I believe it was to continue negotiations with Land Escapes but do nothing else (the else was to actively trap the offending beavers blocking the creek) at this time. My take is that for most of us we will never see Dixon Lake again.
I gave permission to a local weather buff to forward webcam screen shots and weather data from this website to Anthony Farnell at Global news to use in their weather reports. Will be interesting to see what becomes of that. When I had a more sophisticated weather station at the lodge, Environment Canada used to use the data.
We are now on winter burn rules. Fires are permitted 24/7.
Finally got to the bottom of why none of our local snowmobile trails appear on the OFSC interactive trail guide. Several municipalities and the Eastern Ontario Trails Alliance (ATV riders) were requesting some changes to how the trails were used for snowmobiling and have not signed user agreements with the OFSC. I believe that all of those changes have now been completed and the agreements are being (or have been) signed. All of our local trails should appear on the ITG map shortly. The bottom line is that there is NO loss of any trails for the 25-26 riding season.
The Rogers / FOCA special pricing plan for internet service is $60 per month this year. (unless you have a Rogers phone in which case it remains $50 per month) Even at the $60 price it is the best internet service for many of us on the lake. It appears they throttle the 5G connection to 40MBps down, and 10MBps up. That is plenty of bandwidth for any single-family use. I am coming up on the end of my 2nd full season using that service and would grade it an A-. If the service keeps working through power outages in the future I will up their grade to A+.
The dump is on Winter hours. It is open Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and holiday Mondays from 11AM to 4:30PM.
The 2026 fishing regulations were posted on-line on December 10. Copy and paste this URL into your browser to navigate to them:
https://lwra.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-fishing-regulations-summary-en-2025-12-08.pdf
Sorry this editor does not allow me to insert active hyperlinks.
The seasons and regulations remain the same as 2025. Bass starts June 27 and ends November 30. Trout starts January 1 and ends September 30 with the slot size of 16 to 21 inches to be returned to the lake. It is a one-line lake for ice fishing.
