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Seagull Lake Entry 2013
by GGrant

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/02/2013
Entry & Exit Point: Seagull Lake (EP 54)
Number of Days: 6
Group Size: 6
Day 4 of 6
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Being our last day on Ogish, we decided to give Jenny Lake a try since we had gotten a little action there yesterday. With a nice grey sky above, we headed over, and immediately found scores of fish on the bottom at about 25 feet, just west of the narrows leading into the main part of the lake from the portage from Annie. They all hovered on or near the bottom, and would not hit anything we threw at them, including the new-found favorite tube jig. Water was around 58 degrees. We marked even more fish off of the adjacent shore at the bottom of a 70 foot hole. We made our way to the SW corner of the lake, where the wind wanted to blow us anyway. We marked goods numbers of fish in less than 10 feet of water, but again could not get much of a bite going.

We went up to the Eddy lake portage and ate lunch there. One canoe went into Eddy and caught smallies at the inlet from Kekekabic Ponds noted a day earlier. Our canoe stayed in the bay by the portage on Jenny where we caught numerous northern while trolling black+silver Shad Raps. We then made our way to the NE bay hoping for more active fish. We found them right away again, this time off of the S shore line, in big numbers all around the bottom at 10-15 feet. No action here, and we barely marked another fish in this bay.

We headed back toward our camp, figuring we would fish the falls below Mueller one more time, as we would be packing out tomorrow. We did catch more smallies (all females, all holding eggs) using the tube jig, and Husky Jerks/XRaps.

Had some fun with that, and enjoyed a nice sunset as we headed back to the island camp for dinner.