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Summer Time and the Livin’s Easy: Week 8 Report

Jul 22, 2019

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

Jul 15, 2019

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

Jul 11, 2019

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

Jul 9, 2019

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

Jul 3, 2019

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...

The Week 3 Fishing Report

Jun 26, 2019

FISH STORIES: THE GROUP THREE REVIEW Here’s a good fish story for you. Imagine a guy who has fished for pike for a few years and done well with his spinning rod. He decides to get into fly fishing and has his guide show him the basics. So, his guide works...

IT’S ON!!! The 2019 SEASON IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!

Jun 21, 2019

For nearly all our guests, the trip to Scott Lake Lodge is something they roll around in their brain for months. In the middle of a sentence in an email, there will be the image of a nasty looking pike engulfing your fly or lure. A dinner conversation...