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Lake trout are the largest of the trouts, the record weighing almost 46.3 kilograms. They were fished commercially in the Great Lakes until lampreys, overharvest and pollution extirpated or severely reduced the stocks. Commercial fisheries still exist in some smaller lakes in northern Canada.
Lake trout are dependent on cold, oxygen-rich waters. They are pelagic during the period of summer stratification in dimictic lakes.
The lake trout is a slowly growing fish, typical of oligotrophic waters. It is also very late to mature. Populations are extremely susceptible to overexploitation. Many native lake trout populations have been severely damaged through the combined effects of hatchery stocking (planting) and overharvest.
A typical day on the North Seal is often the epitome of fishing the Canadian North. Slamming big pike every cast, trying to reef up a monster laker, catching a seemingly endless supply of huge walleye, concluding with a final picturesque setting of a your dry fly rushing down a set of rapids to a huge, waiting grayling. Big fish, variety, AND action - this is what sets the North Seal above other Canadian fisheries. You must EXPERIENCE of the North Seal !
If you've never been this far north, we assure you that the experience of seeing the terrain change below as you fly over the province is something you'll never forget. Lush green grows sparse, lakes dominate the landscape and roads disappear altogether. Your destination, the North Seal River System of northern Manitoba, is born of a series of 12 glacier-carved waterways that merge to form over 100 lakes. That's 7,200 square miles of continuous watershed-home to uncountable trophy pike, walleye, arctic grayling and lake trout.
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