Lac Seul is one of the best kept Muskie secrets in Ontario. Traditionally nobody fished for them because Lac Seul's reputation attracted Walleye, bass and Pike fisherpersons. Even to this day on some of the busy message boards you will hear people saying there are no Muskie in Lac Seul. If you ask the people that know about Lac Seul's Muskie, they just zip their mouths shut and smile.

Lac Seul's Muskie population has been growing and the secret is getting out. It does not have a far-reaching reputation yet but many avid Muskie hunters choose Lac Seul for their Muskie fishing vacations.

Small Muskie are not commonly caught in Lac Seul. There is so much food and so much cover that they can grow as fast as 5 inches per month in the first summer. By the time fall comes around they are close to 25 inches and only then getting daring enough to come out of hiding to hit lures. Muskie grow much faster than Pike but after their first year their growth, which is 22 to 25 inches, their growth rate slows down a bit. Muskie in the perfect conditions and abundance of food can reach 40 inches in 5 years. Because the location is far north, the growing season is shorter, so it takes a Muskie in Lac Seul around 6 to 8 years to reach 40 inches. With this said, the Muskie fishing is 10 times better then it was 10 years ago. Muskie over 40 inches are getting to be common.

A 40-inch Muskie is nice but fanatical Muskie hunters are after 50-inch fish, which Lac Seul produces, and they catch them. The real shock to the Muskie world is Lac Seul has started constantly producing Muskie as big as 60 inches. Just about every camp on Lac Seul is reporting that a guest each year catches a Muskie close to 60 inches in length. As long as everybody practices catch-&-release, the Muskie fishing will keep getting better. We do not want you to think you are going to come to Lac Seul and catch a 60-inch Muskie. That is a rare blessing that only a few people enjoy each year. Realistically, 90% of Muskie caught by guests are between 34 and 52 inches. If you use small lures you will catch more Muskie than with large lures but there is a threshold the Muskie reach where they expend too much energy to go after small baits. If you are specifically looking for a Giant Trophy Muskie, bigger baits are recommended.

It's impossible to predict how many Muskie you will catch in a day or week. You can go three days without catching one and then on the fourth day hit a hot spot and catch 4 or 5. We recommend trolling off into deeper water but not far from rocky points or shoals where Walleye congregate. Where there are Walleyes, there is Muskie. Muskie will stay close to the Walleye areas until it's time to feed.

The Ministry of Natural Resources, with assistance from the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters and Muskie hunters across Ontario, spent years performing genetic tests and studying Muskie populations. They concluded that there are 5 lakes in Northwestern Ontario, which could easily produce a new World Record Muskie, and Lac Seul was at the top of the list. So far there have only been four Muskie to officially weigh over 60 pounds in history and three of those Muskie were caught in Ontario. The Muskie in Lac Seul are genetically programmed to be much larger than Muskie in most other lakes in North America. It's just a matter of time before someone beats Louie Spray's World Record.