Lac Seul Lodge report 06/16 - 06/23

[Smeds]

Got back Last Saturday after a week at Lac Seul Lodge. In 9 years up there, I've gotta say the fishing was the best yet! It started out pretty slow for us, as the dirty water from all of the rain and the mayfly hatch had us scratching our heads to find some quality fish. I made the call Tuesday to head out to clean water, and hopefully away from the major hatch ... So off past Stoney Point and Windigo Point in the main lake. First and secondary points, both main lake and back in a few bays were on fire! We were used to catching fish fairly shallow at this time of year, but this year location was a lot deeper. 20' to 27' was best, and pulling harnesses behind bouncers far outproduced any other method. We would locate a school by trolling along deep diving cranks in 25-20' of water, watching the graph for telltale hooks. Stop trolling, drop the crawler harness down and pull them with the bow mount @ 1.1 mph and pound them for 45 minutes! We tried bouncing jigs through the same school, tough to get bit. Back down with a harness, hooked up in less than a minute! Numbers and size were unbelievable!

More 24"+ fish than any other years by far. Biggest was just shy of 27". Nothing like going back to back to back with a 24.75, 25.5 and almost 27". If you're headed up there, go try the big lake portion, watch your wind forecasts, be safe first but go pound them ... they're out there!