Lac Seul
We had a good week from the 18th through the 23rd of June. We took our houseboat rental up to the Taylor island area. We had 550 on the fish counter in our boat with 2 guys. We caught most of our walleye in the usual bays, points and clay bank areas. If the spot was wind blown the eyes were very aggressive pulling crawler harnesses in 7-12 fow. We also caught eyes jigging and one day casting jerkbaits on windblown flats. Smallies were just starting to think about spawning. Some traditional spots were very good while others held only a few fish. Some held nothing due to high water. We caught our fish on rocky points or around rocky islands and flats. Fish were anywhere from the shoreline out to 8-10 fow. The deeper ones were accidental catches while eye fishing. We used topwater, spinners and spoons. Pike fishing was hot and cold. Some fish were in the weedy bays right in the flooded grass while others were on rocky points. We did well on spoons but did get a few on topwater and while fishing walleye. Big fish were 26.5 inches for walleye. Many fish in the 20-24 inch range. Biggest smallie was around 19 inches. Biggest pike were a 40, a 39 and a 38 inch fish. Although this wasn't our best year for size and numbers, we definitely learned alot with the high water. We had a few days where we couldve stayed on a hot walleye bite and caught a couple hundred fish but we also like casting for pike and smallies so we spent alot of time trying new spots out. Overall it was a great time as usual and we already look forward to next year.
doing the houseboat thing first week of August. We went last year and did great on Walters. 3 guys averaged 100 walters a day jigging mostly off shore reefs. Biggest was 26". I'm guessing average size was about 16-17". I heard the water is crazy high this year. Flooding of boat ramps and cabins. Last year the water was very low, in fact some of the normal routes and short cuts going north were too shallow for the houseboats. Crazy weather. Global warming we need to get used to it. Good luck. let us know how you do.