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Return of the Trout: Week 11 Report
WEEK 11 UPDATE IT’S THE LAKE TROUT RETURN In last week’s highlights we gave the abundant lake trout of Scott Lake and our many fly out lakes a clear ultimatum: they had just a few more days to figure out where they should be! Apparently, they listened. While only...
The Guides Begin to Crack the Case of the Missing Trout: Week 10 Update
GROUNDHOG’S DAY, AGAIN? Trophy Pike and Trophy Trout For the last three groups it’s been like the Groundhog’s Day film. With just a few name changes, the highlights of the past fifteen days have been close to carbon copies. Like the previous two groups, our Week 10...
Glimpses of Summer and Big Fish: The Week 9 Wrap up
WEEK 9 UPDATE DAY AT A TIME This has been an interesting summer. We are getting it just one day at a time. We just can’t seem to get two warm, sunny days in a row. The pike have been a bit confused; they love warm water and a steady barometer. We’ve had a lot of cool...
Northern Fish Tales: The Week 8 Fishing Report
WEEK 8 BLOG POST NORTHERN FISH STORIES—TRUE ONES Show and Tell How about a fish story? Imagine that you just turned nine years old. Now imagine that you are on a cool fishing trip way, way up north with your mom and granddad. You get in a big noisy airplane with...
High Drama on the 60th Parallel: The Week 7 Review
WEEK 7 UPDATE: HIGH DRAMA ON THE 60TH PARALLELEvery life needs a shot of drama now and then. Our seventh group of the season got their share, from the waters and from the sky. First the water. As we have written often in this space over the past couple of decades, at...
Welcome to the Summer! Week 6 Review
WELCOME TO SUMMER Sometimes your cherished guest is late, but you will let him (or her) in the door. So, it is this season: summer was very late but we’ll let her (summer is definitely a her) in with welcome arms. Summer gave early notice of arrival on the last day of...
Canada Day and the Start of Summer Fishing: Week 5 Review
WEEK 5 UPDATE A HARDY CREW When the calendar flips from June to July at Scott Lake Lodge, it’s reasonable to expect just about perfect summer weather—highs in the mid-to-high 70s, pleasant south or southwest breezes and lots of sunshine. Reasonable but that’s not what...
Of Pike and Muskox: Fishing Week 4 in Review
WEEK 4 UPDATE PREHISTORIC VISITORS AT SCOTT LAKE BREAKING NEWS: On June 28th strange creatures looking like they just wandered out of a Star Wars movie set were spotted on the shores of Scott Lake. They were stocky with very shaggy long dark coats, horns that belong...