Otter Outdoors/Chequamegon Bay

Otter Outdoors new thermo series ice shelters meets the "Trout Mafia Crew" and walks away with a A+ in concurring the brutal ice train of Lake Superior Chequamegon Bay and Apostle Islands region. When crossing pressure cracks sometimes taller than a car or small pick-up truck or just the ruggedness of miles of jagged pack ice to get to ones fishing area the Otter Series shelters held to the test. Lets face it, your gear gets damaged, sleds chip, crack, and outright break. Plastic ice shelter tubs shatter like dropping dinner plates on the floor. Our Crew has seen this each hard water season and thinking back the to the past years we would spend the day fishing and the nights in the garage- "body shop" plastic patching our shelter tubs.

Otter logo words sink in "Tougher, Stronger, Smarter". The crew and I enjoyed the Otter Lodges last ice season. We spent more time fishing than fixing because we didn't have to cut out early and stay up all night in the shop fixing repairs for the next day. Solution, find a shelter maker that could hold up to our everyday life on the ice and we did just that! 

Comfort, strength, and durability, is how we like to put it. The Otter Ice shelter line up is no slouch when it comes to stand up and perform. Warm and toasty on the coldest days old man winter can dish out. Superior strength matched by no other we can firmly say. Spending the money was well worth it. Durability and strength alone has saved me from my year to year shelter purchases. And over all like the logo word "Smarter", It was one of the smartest shelter decisions we have ever made. If you are in the market for buying a new shelter this up coming season do you homework. Don't just look into some icon selling which ever company's shelters, or this is who such and such uses and you should to. Take away the marketing Icon and really look at your shelters.

Ice fishing inside Lake Superior's Chequamegon Bay