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THUNDER AND LIGHTENING: THE FISHING WAS FRIGHTENING – Week 11 Fishing Report
What a week at Scott Lake Lodge! We had it all: perfect sunny days, a wild storm, four huge pike, a new 100+Club record, the annual staff Trout Derby and a fantastic upbeat group of guests. Most dramatic was an all-day storm on the fourth day that brought big time...
THE OLD AND THE NEW, PLUS LOTS OF PIKE: The 10th Week Fishing Report
THE OLD AND THE NEW, PLUS LOTS OF PIKEIt was a very memorable week at Scott Lake Lodge. We had a wonderful blend of old and new customers, with first timers out numbering our veteran guests for the first time all season, but our returning guests had a leader. Howard...
Sun, Fun and Fish: The Week 9 Fishing Report
SUN, FUN AND FISHFor our ninth group of the season, the fun in the sun just kept rolling on. Like our last group, they were singing the song of summertime. When anglers make the trek to the 60th parallel, they generally aren’t thinking shorts, sandals and...
Summer Time and the Livin’s Easy: Week 8 Report
SUMMERTIME: THE LIVIN’ IS EASY“Summertime and the livin’ is easy”In 1957 Ella Fitzgerald first recorded that memorable song. It was only 66 seconds long. Our Week 8 guests felt that sentiment right to the bone for five blissful days of summer—the perfect...
Three Part Harmony: Week 7 Update
THREE-PART HARMONY: WEEK 7 UPDATEAs we approach the mid-point of the 2019, the music is changing. For the first six weeks we had one beautiful and loud note—pike. Our other Scott Lake Lodge gamefish (the arctic grayling and the lake trout) were mainly MIA....
A Wonderfully Average Week: Week 6 Fishing Report
A WONDERFULLY AVERAGE WEEK Average gets a bum rap. In our media-saturated era, everything must be way above average to be respected. If you don’t see words or phrases like “the next level”, “over the top”, “stupendous”, “sensational” or “tremendous”, you...
Weathering the Weather: A Wild Week 5
Weathering the WeatherAnglers are well known for their patience. It’s a good thing because it was tested during our fifth group of the still young 2019 season. They had to wait out some of the worst mid-summer weather we have seen in the twenty-three years of the...
A Community of Anglers: Week 4 Update
A COMMUNITY OF ANGLERS: WEEK 4 UPDATE Rolling right along, the 2019 season here at Scott Lake Lodge has welcomed just over 100 anglers who have landed at our dock in Beavers or Otters to be greeted by fourteen guides looking sharp in their crisp...