Bad Lac Seul Resorts

I'm looking for a resort for a 2003 June fishing trip, I have read so many great things about Lac Seul, the fishing, and the lodges that I have decided to plan a trip to Lac Seul.
I have read so many things about this great lodge and that great lodge that I have begun to question the honesty of some of the posts.
We have all had trips that for one reason or another never quit measured up to our expectations.
Lac Seul has many, many fine resorts i'm sure, but I'm sure it also has a few resorts that should be avoided.
We all work hard and look forward to the big fishing trip each year. Money and vacation day's need to be spent wisley.
It could really suck to have planned, saved and anticipated a trip all year, only to arrive at a camp that is run by people that just want to collect money, keep the guests out of there hair, and provide less then what was promissed in their brochure our web site.
Lets help each other avoid this and send a strong message to the few lodge owners that have been getting away with this.
Since we are dealing with people's lives here (lodge owners) please be extremely honest and specific with any complaint, maybe this could help a lodge clean up it's act.

[Walleye Wacker]

We have had one bad experience at a lodge on LS. But those owners were short lived. Other fisherman that I have talked to have had the same experience when they utilized a lodge that did not maintain an acceptble level of service...the owners were short lived. Dont forget running a Lodge is like running any other business if you dont deliver good service to your customers you no longer can stay in business. Time has a way of weeding out those who dont really want to run a business and a Lodge is definitly a business. Our group stays at lac Seul Lodge and I have stayed at their main lodge and their outposts. Both accomadations have been outstanding. The owner and his employees are up at the crack of dawn and are still working long after the guests have sat down to relax for the evening. The owner has improved his outposts every year with remoeling and upgrades in boats and motors. Im sure there are lodges on LS that are not up to all our standards but they will take care of their own problem....thats the way it always has worked and will continue to work.

[Jigger1]

Jet - It's not cheap, but I challenge you to prove me wrong with Silver Water Wheel Lodge. It's worth every single cent and then some.

We fished Mahkwa for 3 years. The fishing got better every year and the service which started out good, got worse every year(American Plan). Last year the fishing was the best we have ever had anywhere. However, the service was so poor that we wrote a letter of complaint. Upon receipt of our letter, Mahkwa asked us not to return. Needless to say, we will be fishing elsewhere.

[csm]

Cannot say anything about other resorts on Lac Seul because I have only stayed at one, but I have been at Silver Water Wheel Lodge and its terrific. It might be a little expensive on the surface, but the only costs not covered up front are only what you buy from the lodge (fishing lures, shirts, hats, etc). Everything about the resort is first class and the fishing has aways been super and the days its not, its not for everybody on the lake and the guides are working very hard. As to the costs, while it appears a little more than others, after they tack X, Y and Z onto your bill, its likely the same. I have been going to Canada since I was 10 years old and I am now 42, and this is the best run lodge, with the best equipment, with the best staff and owner that I have been at. Just got back from a trip to LOTW to a "premuim resort" and it was half as good as the trip I had the month before to SWWL. I rate that not on the fishing because weather, fish, ,etc. but on the equipmentm, guides, and committment of everybody to provided customer service that excellent. I hear ya on the reality of cost and limited vacations, which why again, cheaper is not always better. Low cost bids often seem great, but then they are low cost providers or tack on so many hidden costs that your hammered at the end.

best of luck in your search. If my fishing group would go to SWWL more than once a year, I would be there!...csm

[Jigger1]

csm ---> ditto, ditto, and ditto again! SWWL is the only lodge I've stayed at on Lac Seul and wouldn't even think to look at another. We're booked for 2003 (fourth annual) with a party of eight and like you, if possible, would jump at the opportunity of making it a bi-annual trip. We fish the last couple days of June and first two or three days of July depending on how the dates fall. I fished Eagle and Lake of the Woods in my youth and not a one of them could lay a finger to the quality of the entire experience at SWWL & Lac Seul.

If you can book in June without going for many years you will be answering your own question...............

[woman]

Thought this was for bad reports but since its for good will give one Were here all summer and have seen the people at Lac seul Evergreen bed over back wards for there guest. The fishing, the service, the camp is top notch and the price is rite.

I think this whole string has been a bunch of political crap with the distinct possibility of doing harm to potentially innocent people's livelihood. I know from being in the business, that fisherman who stay at your camp hold you personally accountable for their fishing success whether they know which end of a pole to hold or not. Let's cut the crap and stay with what counts fishing, not slanderous conduct.

[Walleye Wacker]

Tom, Good point. I think most of us that answered this question took a defensive position and waved the flag for the GOOD resorts we stay at on Lac Seul.