The Manor

The hotel Manor is in Slate Run and serves food and drinks. You see Meredith Robinson in the picture serving customers, Keith Fourspring, and Christine Millard. They look like they are having a fine time.

The Manor sees a lot of snowmobilers, hunters, fisherman, and recreational guests throughout the year. They have a great view of Pine Creek from a very large deck.

A lot of fish and hunting stories get told across this bar.

Mountain Girl News reporter....Paula

Fish Stocking Day

What could cause such an outburst of people with cameras and smiles in front of the Manor in Slate Run. If you guessed trout you guessed right. The annual Spring stocking of Pine Creek sponsored by the PIne Creek Stocking Club. They raised a $1000 to put these nice brown trout in which varied from 14 -17 inches in length. Thirty nice big brown trout were dropped off in front of the Manor in Pine Creek today. A few people thought it might be easier to grab them out of the bucket than try to find them again out in miles of creek, but where would the fun be in that.

Several more groups of thirty were placed on downstream for a total of aproximately 150 fish. This is only a small amount of the trout stocked yearly in Cedar Run, but this group is special to the Sportsman of Slate Run since they paid to have them raised and released.

According to Tom Finkbinder, Slate Run General store owner and fishing expert, certain areas described in the fishing rules and regulations book are designated: Delayed Harvest Artifical Lure areas and people have been fishing them since the first of the year. Tom tells me these brown trout will head up Slate run creek in the Fall and spawn. Well, at least the ones that don't get caught.
This weekend however, was the first time I saw many fisherman out, since the roads had been sort of rough up until the end of last weekend.

There was some awful nice looking fish in those nets and they probably were a bit confused going from a small space to so much room. They have very little time to figure things out and learn how to hide from predators like the eagles, otters and other birds that enjoy fresh naive fish.

All I can say is I am glad I didn't have to wade out in that cold water to get a picture. The woman in midstream getting a picture
was well equipped with waist high waders.

Fishing is not an expertise of mine so I must depend on relaying to you the information that the experts tell me. Any of you out there who know more are welcome to help me out if I make errors. I do know that hatches don't have anything to do with chickens. And I am betting I will learn a little just by writing this during the summer.

Mountain Girl News reporter, Paula signing out.

Bearable story Update

Thanks to Shar at Slate Run for sending me these pictures of the baby bear rescue taken by Steve Dawson. There are two cubs total one looks a little brown. As I reported the mother and two cubs took a tumble over a steep embankment. The mother got out but the cubs couldn't make the climb without help. Wise onlookers called the DNR guys to give them a lift out.



Even though they look cuddly the DNR guy has leather gloves on for a reason. Soon they will weigh a couple hundred pounds and be picking on Tom's dumpster..

Slate Run's First Post

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Down the Creek...Pine Creek that is!

If you jump in Buck Run by our house and float down a mile to Cedar Run and then float down 8 miles to Pine Creek then down 5 miles you will be at Slate Run. Better wear a dry suit though the water still has a few ice cubes floating in it.

The First picture is Slate Run General Store and Orvis Dealer. For the non-fishing person, "Fishing Supply Shop." On our visit today we saw Cozette Stoltzfus, second picture, who works part-time for Tom and Deb Finkbinder, owners of the store. Tom was getting his eyes fixed so neither of them were around for pictures.

The fort was being held down well by their hard-working employee, Shar Bohnert. She was doing it all today, selling gas, groceries, gifts, making sandwiches, answering phone calls mostly asking about Tom's eye surgery.

This store is another great gem of our woods. Last week I called about getting some kerosine, since they closed at 5 pm and it was already 4pm. I knew it would be close. Lee and I jumped on the snowmobile for 8 miles, I jogged to the car the last mile, and shot down the creek 5 miles as fast as possible. I looked at the time it was 5:03PM, of course anywhere else you would have been out of luck. I reached for the first door locked, my heart sank, had I missed the cut-off? Then I saw Tom's car still parked in front, I went to the front door, still open.
Upon seeing me walk in, Shar said, "I told Tom you were coming and he said, leave the door open I will wait for her." Can you imagine any stores near you still being open three minutes after the closing time. I was very greatful desperately needing the kerosine for a heater at a camp.

The last two pictures show the tackle shop and the fanciest fly tying table I ever saw. Today at Slate Run, the animal talk centered around a mother bear and two cubs, apparently all of them fell over a steep embankment near the creek and much to onlookers dismay only the mother could climb out. Wisely, none of the onlookers attempted to rescue the cubs for fear of a non appreciative response from the mother.

The DNR was called and they scooped the cubs up into cages and brought them up to the mother. You've got to love a happy ending. Wish I had some pictures of that for the blog.

It got up to 80 degrees yesterday, and that was quite a shock from 30 degrees in the morning. The birds are busy making noise and the peepers were croaking loudly. It is easy to forget how quiet things are in the winter and how fast it changes with some warm weather.

The roads are clear but extremely muddy. If you don't like your vehicle dirty don't drive back the forest roads right now. Looks good for anyone wanting to see their camp this weekend.

Mountain Girl Road Update: Muddy and slippery and full of pot holes. Your car will need a bath after a visit back here.