We just got back from Seagull lake last weekend for Lake trout. My brother in law posted this video, we talked about showing exactly where we went, we've always had good luck here. Hope you enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvA3fJHjKl8

Link Nice video! Funny watching the video as I know Johan. It's a small world.

Thanks for the release of the 20 year old plus fish. I love seeing the nice white snow.

excellent video guys, thanks for sharing. seagull is 1 of my favorite lakes.

One thing it may have been slushy,but snow wasn't super deep.

One of the best ways to ruin sensitive lake trout fisheries is to post specific locations on the internet--especially on lakes that are so easily accessed...

very nice video!

quote arctic: "One of the best ways to ruin sensitive lake trout fisheries is to post specific locations on the internet--especially on lakes that are so easily accessed..."

i dont think the average person is doing a 3 mile walk in slush, at my age i'm not.

quote arctic: "One of the best ways to ruin sensitive lake trout fisheries is to post specific locations on the internet--especially on lakes that are so easily accessed..."

Agree 100%.

Nice video, I enjoyed that. I used to ice fish on Sea Gull once in a while. You do earn every trout you catch. It's rarely an easy trip down that lake in the winter.

Yeah, it was brutal this year. A lot of slush on the lake. 3 of us fell through the ice around the portage areas. Luckily it was warm out. Good times, though.

quote Kobykat: "Yeah, it was brutal this year. A lot of slush on the lake. 3 of us fell through the ice around the portage areas. Luckily it was warm out. Good times, though. "

wow falling thru the ice. How much ice where you were fishing.

At Miles Island, there was about 12 inches of ice.

So ya fell thru the ice. That's still 32° h20. Don't care how warm it is out..... That's not good

3 in my brothers group went through the ice near current a couple weeks ago. They fished the same exact spot. Seagull is serious business.

Oh actually I just watched the video and that was the same group my brother was with.... he shot the video. oops!

With limited ice everywhere,you get a current and a little snow on top it can be deceiving how much ice there is in spots. Always made a wide berth of current areas.

Cool video, did you just fish one day? We have contemplated a possible winter trip there but we prefer total seclusion and I fear we may not find it there.

Yeah, we left S. Mpls at 10pm on Friday, reached the lake early Saturday morning, fished all day Saturday and came home Sunday. We stayed in our Ice shelters, It sucked, really wet as the shelters dripped all night. A couple guys tried to make a quinzee hut, but it collapsed. If I had to do it again, I'd pack a tent in and stay at one of the camping sites on the island (and stay another day.) I've fished out there for the past 3 years now and have never seen anyone else out on the ice, if there was someone, I'd just fish on the other side of miles island, good fishing on the west side too.

quote arctic: "One of the best ways to ruin sensitive lake trout fisheries is to post specific locations on the internet--especially on lakes that are so easily accessed..."

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Glad you had fun and nice to see the bigger ones released but c'mon... may I suggest sharing a few photos and stories but using some discretion?

Ha, trust me, there will never be a video on the exact location of our favorite camp site. Some (or most) weekends, those are more rare to secure than any fishing spot. Ice fishing in the BWCA is something Minnesotans have that nobody else has, I hope this gives someone the confidence to go out and try it.

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Glad you had fun and nice to see the bigger ones released but c'mon... may I suggest sharing a few photos and stories but using some discretion? "

Have you ever even been up there in winter, or hiked into a remote place pulling a pulk to fish? The number of people that will pack a sled 2.5 miles to that spot is few and far between. Even on Saganaga, where you can run a sled up the corridor and walk off it, most folks never make it even a mile off of it.
Oh, and the DNR does not consider Seagull's laker population to be "sensitive". They are completely self sustaining and doing fine (in fact their was a census done this past year that I'm waiting for the results from)

Ruin?..... I think not. There are more manhours fishing for lakers in the non-bdub side of Seagull in one weekend than what this area will get in many winter seasons of hike in fisherfolks. And with trout its not like a secret hidden reef that holds walleyes, they roam, and the holes they punched could produce nothing for days.

Kudos on a nice trip!!!

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