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Some Hot Fishing & The Case of the Missing Terns: Week 7
WEEK 7 UPDATE SUMMERTIME FISHING UPDATE AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING TERNS First, the terns. The Common Tern is a striking beautiful and elegant bird: sleek in design, graceful in flight, wearing a smart black cap and sporting a very sharp red bill that leads the...
Scott Lake Lodge Living: Week 6 Update
WEEK 6 UPDATE THE RHYTHMS OF SCOTT LAKE LODGE LIVING It’s been a month now since the first floatplane landed at our dock on this magical island in the wilderness border country between the endless tundra of the Northwest Territories and the boral forests of northern...
The Momentum Continues: Week 5 Update
THE BIG MO Trophy Fish Excellence Momentum is a wonderful thing. We had big time momentum coming out of Week 4 when a season high (and one of our all-time highs) of 195 trophy fish were landed. The first day of fishing Week 5 picked right up where fishing Week 4 left...
It’s Summertime and the Fishing is Easy: The Week 4 Update
WEEK 4 UPDATE SUMMERTIME AND THE FISHING IS EASY The famous “Summertime” George Gershwin song has been sung for eight-five years and has been covered over 25,000 times. It also became the anthem of our Week 5 group. Finally, it was summertime and the living, along...
A Great Average: The Week 3 Update
In baseball going 2 for 5 is a pretty good day, sporting a .400 average. So should it be in fishing. Not every day is great. For our Week 3 guests they batted .400, having two days of wonderful sunshine over their five-day trip. Add the last day of a little sun and no...
The Goretex Gang: Week 2 Update
If only . . . If only the entire week could have been like the fourth day of our Week 2 adventure. On that day we were gifted the most precious far-north commodity—bright sunshine. The sun on the water woke up the big pike and brought them scattered from deep water to...
The Long Wait is Over: The Week 1 Update
It had been 270 days since the last group of the 2022 fishing season stepped off the dock at Scott Lake Lodge and climbed in our floatplanes to head south. For all our staff and the many Scott Lake Lodge regulars, the wait for the new 2023 fishing season is a long...
2023 Scott Lake Lodge – Are you excited yet??
We just cannot wait to chase those giant fish and see so many familiar, smiling faces! Here is some excitement to get out pumped for this season's fishing!