Lac Seul - Chamberlain Narrows

[Fish Head]

Headed up the 3rd week of June to Chamberlain Narrows.  I think this will be my 8th trip up there, but I haven't been up there the last 2 summers.  Anyone else going up there this year?

[BobT]

We're heading up to the southern end near Deception Bay next week. I know we won't be heading that far north. May take a run up to the Grassy Bay area though.

[Fish Head]

3 hours ago, BobT said:

We're heading up to the southern end near Deception Bay next week. I know we won't be heading that far north. May take a run up to the Grassy Bay area though.

Good luck!  Give us a report when you get back.

[Fish Head]

How was it Bob?

[BobT]

We fish mostly in the Lost Lake area. The morning bite was quite a bit slower than we have grown to anticipate. Some pick up in activity around noon and then much better in the evening in current. Friday, I took my fishing partner up to Pelican Rapids and from 6:00pm - 9:30pm we figured we boated over 200 walleyes. Every one was between 15" - 17". Nothing larger or smaller. Saturday evening we found the bite slowed a bit (only boated about 100 walleyes in the same time period) but they ran slightly larger with most running in the slot. 

 

Crooked narrows (west of Deception Bay) was productive, especially in the evening. 

 

Keewatin Bay produced some nice eyes on Thursday with many falling in between 25" - 28". Our biggest of the week was 28.25".

 

One boat made a run up to Grassy Bay and did well. He also stopped at Devil's Elbow and found it to be productive. Caught one musky there too.

 

Caught quite a few northern pike in the 31" - 34" range. 

 

With the slower morning bite, this was the first time in the 20 years we've been going that we did not run out of bait. I gave away about 30 dozen minnows to a neighbor that didn't have any. So end tally was that we fed out 170 dozen minnows and a pound of leeches with 10 guys.

[Fish Head]

We got back from our trip to the Chamberlain Narrows area a couple days ago. The fishing for our group was great, but we heard many other groups were not having a lot of success.  The walleyes were shallower than I would have guessed. Even with the clear blue sky, hot sunny days and lack of wind most days, we found most of our walleyes in 10-13 feet.  On a couple spots we did  well casting crankbaits to shallow rocks in just a few feet of water, however most walleyes were caught with a jig and minnow. Best walleye was 29 1/4. 

 

Anywhere we caught small walleyes was a good area to cast large spoons, buck tails, and crankbaits for northerns. We had several northerns in the 33-35" range and the biggest was just over 38"  .