Seagull Lake Entry 2013
by GGrant
Today we moved out of Ogish with plans to spend the last night on Alpine. We would either fish it or Seagull on the way out of the BW in the morning. We decided we would spend a little time on Kingfisher where the inlet comes from Ogish. Our canoe got there first, and within 5 minutes I had a nice smallie on a black+silver F11 Rapala. We stayed there for about an hour catching smallies below the rapids, and then made our way on to Alpine.
Upon portaging into Alpine, we figured we should fish at below the falls coming in from Jasper, since most of our fish thus far had been taken at inlets. We marked some fish but there was not much action, except for a gigantic northern that tried to take a smallie off of one of our other canoes' stringer that was tied off of the bow. The head came out of the water and revealed itself as the biggest northern any of us had seen. After the excitement wore off, we moved on seeking a campsite at the N end of the lake which we were told had not been affected by the recent burn. That sate was occupied, so we worked our way around to the W side of the island across from the Seagull portage. This site was short on trees, but was comfortable enough for two tents. We watch an eagle watching us from the next island over, as we fried up a few fish for our last fish of the trip (almost).