Las Seul 6/23 – 7/01

Fresh back from a week with family on Lac Seul, what an awesome trip.

Resort is wonderful, the new owners (2019) have invested a lot and things are really comfortable. Perfect hosts, too.
Lac Seul’s Scout Lake Resort

We were on the west end, fishing mainly Bay of Islands / McKenzie Bay area. The water was 69-74 degrees, weather in the 70s with a mix of clouds/smoke/sun and light winds from NE-SE and shifting to SW on the last day.

We fished 0830-1130, 2 hour shore lunch, and 1330-1630 every day and caught as many walleye as we could possibly want. Our highest total one day was 130 in 2 boats, so a fish every 3 minutes or every 6 minutes in a single boat. The size was equally impressive with 2/3 of the fish over the 18″ slot and 1/2 over 20″.

Largest were a 25″ for my buddy’s son as well as a 38″ pike, a 25.5″ for me, a 26.5″ for my wife, a 27.25″ for my buddy, and my 11-year-old son got a 26.75″ as well as a lifetime fish at 30.25″ long. Unreal!

Tactic was bottom bouncers with spinner rigs using minnows, crawlers, and gulp crawlers moving slow at 0.7-1.0 mph. Fish were already pushing to deeper summer spots so our normal shallow mud and sand wasn’t working. We moved to main lake rock in 15-25′ and found very willing biters.

Highly recommended!

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Sounds like an awesome trip! Thank you for sharing.

Sounds like an amazing trip. Memories for a lifetime for the kiddos.

Sounds like a great trip Mike. Are you going to get a replica of the walleye for your son?

My brother goes next week. Thanks for the report, I forwarded it on to him.

James Conklyn wrote:

Sounds like a great trip Mike. Are you going to get a replica of the <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleye for your son?

Hi Jim,
Yep, we will be adding another Lax replica to the walls of the Muskie Cave!

Your son will have a nice Christmas present coming, something he’ll remember the rest of his life.

Great report and great fish!

Congrats on a good trip and i’m sure the boy will never forget that trip.

Lac Seul does not disappoint . I fished it years ago on the Northeast side . Never set foot in a boat , caught all the walleyes i could eat. I was on a motorcycle and camped where ever i could . Those were the days .

Great report and sounds like a great trip. Anytime someone catches a “mounter” makes for a great trip but when it is a youngster it makes it an AWESOME trip.

Michael is this a camp and area you have been to in the recent past or was this a new location for you and the family?

MX1825 wrote:

Michael is this a camp and area you have been to in the recent past or was this a new location for you and the family?

I’d been to that part of the lake with friends at a different resort one time pre-pandemic. Then I went up to Scout Lake Resort with my family last year, and obviously returned there this year.
Last year was odd with the high, cold water. The water levels were right on average this year but I think a few weeks ahead of average due to warm water. Every year feels new!