Lac Seul Chamberlian Narrows Info?

Our group is planning a trip with Lac Seul Outposts around mid-late July. We will be based out of the Chamberlain Narrows on the east side. We are rookies to Lac Seul but have fished shield type lakes plenty of times. Anyone have anything to say about that area of the lake? Mostly looking for general areas to fish in that section that that will shorten the learning curve. We will have our own boat with mapping, so that will help. We are also willing to burn some gas once we get comfortable with the area. Walleyes will be on the menu. Maybe a day or two of pike/muskie. I’d also bass fish, but that seems to be a secondary fish up there.

Go over to Walleye Central and post this. A guy from Atlanta I’ve fished with mentioned he has fished the area often and wanted me to go up there. I’m sure he can feed you a bunch of info if you can connect with him.

Have fun it sounds like quite the area.

I fish LSO at least 3 times a year since 2013. Usually it is at Ontario opener in May, mid to late June, then Mid September. You do not have to go far from camp but honestly any point that tapers to a 20 – 25 foot flat area is good. Muskies can be had north of LSO in Wapesi or Birch and Pickerel Narrows area. Along the shore across from LSO can be good, keep adjusting your depth till you find them as they can be anywhere from 8 to 25 feet depending on the water level, water temperature and wind. Hopefully your map is the Navionics Map. It is water/land accurate and pretty good about the hazards. For our group, we usually have 3 in the boat, 60 to 80 walleyes per boat is what I say was a good day, 50 to 60 is a tough day and 80 to over 110 is a great day. Check out my blog: http://www.davidjanderson.blogspot.com and look at the left side scrolling down to the labels. Click on Lac Seul Outpost or Lac Seul and you will get a good idea.

dirk-w:

I’d concur with Dave regarding the depths… we do get up there from just before the 15th for about a week the last three years. We stay probably 30 – 40 miles SW from the Narrows. I do have friends who stay there (LSO) and speak highly of it, but they are there during the late September timeframe.

We fish only ‘eyes, but we’ve been considering scaring the muskies and thus our move from the SCentral part of the lake north of Dryden. Various sorts of pre-travel stuff has happened that has kept us from targeting the skies each of the last two years…

Our success has come from, as Dave said, points of land/islands that are getting wind on them… You can catch fish from 15′ to 30-35′. Finding humps that top out in those same ranges can be good too… Timing is everything, if they’re not biting and you’re marking move on and go back and check ’em later. We fish 2 and three from each boat, with our best story of having 18 fish on the clicker at lunch and going back and putting 118 in the boat after that 3 pm lunch!!! Even with a long seaworthy boat we were struggling with long fetches of wind, trying to keep the bow trolling in the water, so finding stuff in the wind, without 3 footers is a good deal as we fished out of a 20’Lund Tyee and couldn’t keep enough weight in the bow to keep it in the water. Minnows and crawlers have caught fish, but generally its been a minnow/jig (1/8th to 5/8ths) bite for us…

D. Anderson, we think that based on a couple different resorts willing to share musky info, that we are about 20 of those 40 miles short of decent musky opportunities with Fish Hook Bay and Pine Point across from that bay as being the western most we’d find them… Do you have any ideas of the truth in that??? Really don’t need spots, just trying to get close enough to spend time and get a realistic chance to see one, let alone be looking for the perverbial needle in the haystack!!! You can message me that answer if you’d like to be specific… Or let me know if you have any info in your blog… Thank you in advance!!!

Mark

Thanks for the info guys. Is there a source for a quality paper map of the east side?

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D. Anderson, we think that based on a couple different resorts willing to share musky info, that we are about 20 of those 40 miles short of decent musky opportunities with Fish Hook Bay and Pine Point across from that bay as being the western most we’d find them… Do you have any ideas of the truth in that??? Really don’t need spots, just trying to get close enough to spend time and get a realistic chance to see one, let alone be looking for the perverbial needle in the haystack!!! You can message me that answer if you’d like to be specific… Or let me know if you have any info in your blog… Thank you in advance!!!

Mark

Mark, to tell the truth I have never really fished musky in Lac Seul, not that I don’t like fishing them however I tend to like faster action! My musky knowledge comes from the resort (LSO) guys that claim Wapesi has always been a go to spot for musky and we often see guys casting for them in the channel going into Wapesi west of Pecker Point. We also often see them casting off the island points on the north west side and many of the points or shoals marked on the Navionics map. I have spent a lot of time in Wapesi and it is odd that our group has never accidentally hooked one. My brother fished out of Anderson’s last June and did the float plane to their Pickerel Narrows outpost cabin. They fished around the area in camp boats so didn’t go too far yet caught 3 musky while fishing walleyes. As far as Fish Hook Bay, the further west we go that far south (from LSO) is Bear Narrows area. Maybe one day I’ll bring my rod and a few big baits and try it. Last fall was the first time I had a big northern grab my hooked walleye as I brought it to the boat.