Allison catches Norm Jr off of Ludlow's Docks

Allison Trezona just caught the biggest fish that she has ever caught right here on Ludlow's Island docks. It was a monster of a Northern measuring at roughly 24 inches. Good Job Allison, I knew all that fishing that you and Victoria were doing would pay off.


The Kids all gathered once they heard all the comotion coming from Allison and Victoria to see the Northern that Allison has named Larry, since it wasnt the original Norm.



This week the fishing off of the docks is proving to be some of the best on the lake. I watch guest go out and hunt the lake to find fish and the whole time all the kids are on the docks catching huge Northerns, and big Bass, and loads of Sunfish and Perch.

Norman caught!

Andrew Koblas managed to catch Norman the Northern off of our docks using his secret bait. Congratulations Andrew on catching Norman within 24 hours of arriving here. Andrew has actually caught Norman 3 years in a row and says "it's easy!".
Have a good one
John

From the Stuckey family

Hello all-
We just returned from a wonderful family vacation to Northern Minnesota. We stayed at a beautiful small Island resort that Scott worked at for 3 summers while in college. (Kate and Annie Ludlow were our flower girls almost 16 years ago). It is called Ludlows Island and it is on Lake Vermillion in Cook, Minnesota (just about 45 Minutes from International Falls).

We had wonderful weather and enjoyed being away from the Florida heat and humidity. We all enjoyed fishing & boating, swimming, kayaking, paddle boats & canoes. And alot of relaxing-no tv's or phones! Lauren was the big fisherman pulling in a 3 lb and 1lb small mouth bass. Jacob loved organizing the fishing gear and playing "dock boy" in training. Zachary was the swimmer and enjoyed the new water slide.

Hope this finds everyone enjoying their summers.

Jodi and all

From the Stuckey family

Hello all-
We just returned from a wonderful family vacation to Northern Minnesota. We stayed at a beautiful small Island resort that Scott worked at for 3 summers while in college. (Kate and Annie Ludlow were our flower girls almost 16 years ago). It is called Ludlows Island and it is on Lake Vermillion in Cook, Minnesota (just about 45 Minutes from International Falls).

We had wonderful weather and enjoyed being away from the Florida heat and humidity. We all enjoyed fishing & boating, swimming, kayaking, paddle boats & canoes. And alot of relaxing-no tv's or phones! Lauren was the big fisherman pulling in a 3 lb and 1lb small mouth bass. Jacob loved organizing the fishing gear and playing "dock boy" in training. Zachary was the swimmer and enjoyed the new water slide.

Hope this finds everyone enjoying their summers.

Jodi and all

More Pictures from the sailboat races at Ludlow's

S.S. Napkin VS Lady Bug

Tooty Fruity VS S.S. Wonder

S.S. Wonder VS S.S. Napkin

Lady Bug VS Wikki stick Wonder

Lady Bug VS Wikki Stick Wonder

Lady Bug VS Stargazer

Lady Bug VS S.S. Napkin

Pictures from the sailboat races

A.C.C Vs Gator Bait


Me and the S.S. Sponge

Patrick had to go he was sinking the S.S. Sponge

Jade and her winning boat "Lady Bug"

Adam and his boat


A.C.C. VS Wikki stick Wonder

A.C.C. VS Gatorbait

A.C.C. VS Wikki Stick Wonder

A.C.C. VS Gatorbait

Sailboat making and Racing tournament NEW at Ludlow's Island Resort

By popular request we here at Ludlow’s have started a new activity for children to enjoy, Sailboat making. Once the sailboats are made we place them head to head to compete in a small friendly tournament against fellow guest who made sailboats.
This activity did replace our old wikki stick activity but the sailboat activity is one of the most fun activities that I have done with guest.
Today we had 10 guest make sailboats and customize them to their liking, also Adam and Myself had to make some ourselves so that we can compete and challenge each tournament winner, plus they were fun to make. Of course if any of you know me and how much I love cartoons could probably figure out what kind of themed sailboat that I made hence the name S.S. Sponge. Adam made a boat with an Irish theme, he also paid tribute to the retiring wikki sticks and used them on his boat to help with design and floatation.



Today’s tournament was a lot of fun Below are the Races and Racers;

Round 1
Stargazer – Haley
Lady Bug – Jade
Dragon Fly – Kate
Napkins – Ethan
Wikki stick wonder – Brenna
Horsepower – Kristen
ACC – Liam
Gator Bait – Fran rep. Root family
Tooty Fruity – Jordan,
S.S. wonder – Jordan S.

Round 2(winners of Round 1)
Lady bug
Napkins
Wikki stick wonder
A.C.C.
S.S. Wonder

Round 3(winners of round 2)
Lady Bug
Wikki Stick Wonder
Napkins

Final Round(winner of round 3)
Lady Bug
S.S. Sponge

Winner Defeated the dockboy on top of the tournament
Lady Bug – Congratulations Jade

Jacob, Lauren & Zachary 1st Place sandcastle

Jacob, Lauren, Zachary posing with their sandcastle, with a functional bridge that could even hold my weight.

Last week Lauren and Zachary built an excellent sand castle for our sand castle competition, and with it blew all the competition away and captured first place for the week.
Congradulations Jacob, Lauren and Zachary
John Burger

Reid Underdogs the Fishing Derby!

Reid posing with his 1st place t-shirt

Last weeks winner of the fishing derby was Reed Geiger. It was another exciting derby of course. When it looked like Ally and Jenna were pulling way ahead of the group with 17 and 18 fish in the final minutes Reid came from behind to Tie the with Ally 21 to 21, so with the world cup going on we decided to have a fish off, I had them go head to head to decide the winner, first one to pull a fish out of the water would be the winner, it took Reid less than 10 seconds to pull the winning fish out of the water.
Congradulations Reid on winning the Fishing Derby
John Burger

Dock boy & Girl training

Erin takes driving the shuttle extremely seriously

Emma driving the shuttle

This past week I had a pretty easy job since Erin was my assistant dockboy in training. He was very dedicated to his training, he would sit and wait in the shuttle so that he wouldnt miss a ride when it was needed plus I was giving him lessons on how to drive the shuttle which is a pretty Prestigious thing here at Ludlow's Island Resort. Erin was a fast learner and was an great shuttle boat driver, and he gave me a chance to sit back and enjoy the shuttle ride instead of doing all the work. Emma was another shuttle boat enthusiast, she was another great driver also. So I just wanted to say thank you Erin and Emma for the help on the docks and it was great having you here.
Thank you and havea great day
John Burger

Leave a memory

I thought I would ask past guest who have recently stayed with Ludlow's or even those who have stayed with us in the past to leave me a comment about your stay or send me some pictures of your family or children while you stayed with us. If you need to turn the picture into an html format you can try and use http://www.imagetiger.com/ or feel free to email them to me at info@ludlowsresort.com .
Hope to see some fun photos and or good stories
John Burger
below I leave you with a couple of action shots of our new water slide, and a picture of Nick and Kyle holding a Huge Small Mouth bass

Lake Vermilion Lobster

Today Lauren and her younger brother Zachary were fishing down on our docks and decided to catch some crawfish instead of fish, so she caught a bunch of crawfish and since she had never eaten or cooked any crawfish her and I decided to cook them up. She said that she liked them, and she shared some with Matt and me also and they tasted like mini lobsters...YUM!
Thanks for the good food
John

Kyle wins Ludlow's Fishing Derby!

Congradulations to Kyle, this week he won our fishing derby with this years record of 22 fish in the twenty minute contest. It was a pretty exciting derby with a lot of contestants and a lot of fishes caught. Above is Kyle with his first place prize that he got to pick out of our gift store.
Have a good one
John