Loc Court O’Reilles

Looking for any and all help on this lake. I’m coming up from Texas for a golf outing with some buddies. None of them fish so I will probably not spend a ton of time fishing, but I plan to at least wet a line at some point. What can I expect the first week of June? I’m a bass fisherman down here, but I did grow up in Michigan and have familiarity with Smallmouth, Walleye, and Pike and Musky. I may or may not have access to a boat. I’ll be staying on the south end of the lake on Sandy Beach Road or something like that. Any advice you can give me on tackle and techniques for any of the above species would be greatly appreciated. You can email me at [email protected] if you like. Thanks in advance.

Hey Eric we always just slow troll spoons for Northern and Musky Trolling motor usually in 6 feet or less.

there’s a bunch of smallmouth in the lake, and some big musky, pike and walleye are just trash fish in my book . If I remember right there’s a full moon around the first of june, so when you’re up there there will still be a lot of the smallmouth on beds, the ones that have finsihed will be out roaming sand & gravel flats and should be real aggressive. You’ll probably be a little early for the deeper weeds to be coming up good so I’d stay stick to shallower bays, and rock bars for musky, but I’m not really an expert on them.
I don’t know where sandy beach road is off hand, but if you don’t have access to a boat, you better be ready to make some long casts some of those flats on the south shore go out a couple hundred yards before dropping off

The way the weather has gone, Lac Court Oreilles is warming real slowly. Good bet the smallies will be spawning if you’re up the first week of June. Without starting the “fishing for spawning fish” debate… you’ll find the bass on almost any gravel substrate. If you don’t have a boat, you may want to check out the area of LCO near the bridge between LCO and little Lac Court Oreilles. This would provide easy water access, and lots of bass congregate in this area of LCO near the bridge – this would provide some fishing if you waded along shore.

Let me know if you’re looking for some suggestions on walleye or pike – lots of options if you have a boat.