Last night I trolled out on LCO for a couple of hours in the evening, got one walleye and one pike, both on lead core with 50 feet of line out past the lead core, I ran three color lead color. both came on Reef Runner Ripsticks. the bait should have been running around 20-24 feet if I figured it out right. The walleye was in about 30 feet of water, and was about 25-26 inches. the pike was in the same kind of water and was about 30 inches.
On a side note, they killed off the weeds in Musky Bay and they are floating around all over LCO from ring bars to musky bay is unfishable. There are weed mats the size of my boat every 30 feet, makes trolling impossible. don’t want to imagine if the wind kicked up and pushed all the weeds out of the bay. Musky bay has lost over half its weeds, a lot of bare spots in the bay, and the poison killed alot more than just pondweed, a lot of cabbage, and coontail floating out there, and they smell really bad, like chemicals. I really think this is a bad thing for LCO, and am really thinking about eating and fish out of there now.
On another note, Trolling on the Chippewa Flowage got voted down, so there won’t be any trolling out there. I feel this is a real set back for fishing in the Hayward area, and Wisconsin really. too many people that fear change, not realizing it would be a good thing for fishing in the area. Also the flowage will be open for ice fishing for everything except walleye, musky, and sturgeon. and the daily limit on all panfish including crappie will be 25 now, from the first saturday in may till the first saturday in march.
Good luck,
Tanner Wildes