Lac Seul reports

Haven't seen many posts about fishing out of Lac Seul Lodge area. Bay of islands. Hows the water level this year

Just returned, water is low, fishing was the worst in 10 years. Not sure if the chemical spill effected the entire lake, but where we fished was terrible.

[bigtimeelectric]

Chemical spill??????? Where were you fishing?how low was the water?

[Weby13]

I never heard about any chemical spill on lac seul. We went to onaway lodge on lac seul june 18th - the 25th. 10 of us caught about 2500 walleye and about another 1000 pike and smallies. Fishing is the best its been in about 5 years for us on lac seul.

[Steve Ediger]

Must have missed all the chemicals. I am in Minneapolis/St.Paul on my way back to Kansas after spending the last two weeks @ L.S. Lodge. Another excellent stay at a truly top notch camp. The walleye fishing seemed to be as good if not better than the past few years. You know the L.S. story line - "hard to catch fish short enough to eat". The smallies were really going well too, with most in the 16" - 19" range. We spent very little time fishing for northerns but heard a lot of comments in camp about large pike caught. The weather was nearly perfect with only one day in fifteen that made fishing difficult. The last day or two we were there I noticed a few mayflies on our screens. My guess is the hatch is just getting started and should be in full swing in the next few days - that is, unless the chemical spill got to them. Can't wait to get back up there in about a month.
Steve

[joeman79]

Glad you had a great trip Steve!! 2 Weeks oh what a dream that would be for me. 34 days I will have the pleasure of being there myself. Can't wait.
Joe

[Steve of Madison]

Wait a second....WHAT chemical spill? You don't just drop a Bomb like that and walk away........unless it's Bull*&^^.

Anybody else heard anything about a chemical spill???

[Steve of Madison]

OHHHHH I get it, a guest to the board talks about LOW water and a chemical spill. But if you check the historical graphs water is about normal and he thinks he's being funny, by dropping the spill bomb! I get it, not really funny though!

[lcwhit]

with the board as quiet as it has been, i figure fishing to be slow. could be wrong. haven't had a really good year on lac seul since 2004. maybe i've lost my touch. never know. i'll try again in about 10 days. wish me luck.

[LoDo]

I have two words for fisherman heading to Lac Seul, "McKenzie Bay". I stayed at Fishermans Cove 6/20 - 6/27 and we had to fish McKenzie Bay and the South Inlet for walleyes. The walleyes were still in the spawning areas where water temps are in the high 60s low 70s. All islands N & NE of Big Sands produced several big walleyes. Anywhere beyond Deer Island was great. We used jigs and minnows, bottom bouncers and spinners, as well as trolled #7s and #8 shad raps with good luck.
Biggest walleye was 26 1/4 inch caught on a rapala shad rap. Several 24 -26 inch walleyes caught. Weather was great!

Highly recommend staying at Fishermans Cove. Dan and family truely know how to spoil their guests.

Best Tip: Fish anywhere beyond Deer Island and make sure to stay in the wind and find a nice "walleye chop".

Good luck,

LoDo