Hey Wisconsinites!

 

Sounds like I'm going to be spending a few days over 4th of July weekend on Little Green Lake, in WI (checks map: NE of Madison, W of Fond du Lac). 

 

My initial online investigations suggest this lake is a big draw for walleye and musky.  I and my father-in-law will be tasked with teaching my niece and nephew how to fish, so I expect we will be targeting panfish and bass;  in my experience, smaller waterbodies with good musky populations can be excellent for bass and panfish of good size, although less-so for high numbers of fish. Also, looks like this lake has both largemouth and smallmouth.

 

Anybody have any intel to share on this place? 

 

 

 

Fished it several times. I would suggest getting the topo map and finding a few spots worth poking around. The whole lake is covered in docks. There is a lot of grass and can sometimes become over vegetated. I can't speak much to walleye, panfish, or musky, only for bass. The lake gets a lot or pressure. 

 

There is one island that is a pretty big submerged island off the point of musky bay at the north end of the lake. It can get pretty shallow, but may be hard to find without electronics. It can be pretty decent. I feel like the whole lake has fish. I generally have more luck on the north end of the lake and the southwest docks (which are deeper than most docks on the lake). Any kind of creature bait will do you well. A lot of pressure so the jig still works, but is less productive than a creature bait texas rigged in my opinion. Throwing a chatterbait around has done me well for numbers (white/chartreuse). If I had three baits, it would be in this order: #1 - Creature bait texas rigged; #2 - chatterbait covering water and bouncing off of weeds); #3 - topwater frog (either weedless or hollow body frog). Please report on your success. 

I realize this is an old thread, but I've spent weeks at a time on Little Green Lake fishing. Admittedly I mostly fished for panfish and walleyes so I'm probably not the guy to ask regarding bass, but Todd (I believe is his name) at Landing On Little Green Lake may be able to provide some good insight for you. He also has a little bait shop in there for any essentials you might need.

The submerged island mentioned above is always a good spot for panfish, but the north and north east ends of the lake always seemed to provide. Again this is just regarding panfish, but for us we always used slip bobbers with wax worms or minnows and never had trouble finding fish.

Had an enjoyable Independence Day weekend in WI on Little Green Lake... and even caught a few.

 

We showed up to find the lake in the middle of an algae bloom -- it was indeed quite green, living up to its name. We rented a pontoon boat at The Landing, which fortunately had a depthfinder. I was the only one of the family much interested in fishing, though, so I focused on bass during my turns with the boat. I mostly fished around the north and northeast end, including musky bay and the sunken island.

 

I ended up catching 7 largemouth and 3 pike while being dodged by jetskis, tubers and skiers.  Here's a few of the bass --  the best was a three pounder (on the right, below) who attacked a weightless stick worm jerked through scattered vegetation in about 4 ft of water, :

 

Other than one of the pike which hit a buzzbait, the other fish either took the stick worm, or a Hula Grub rigged on a title-shot jig and worked along the bottom.

 

Thanks for the input!  Seems like a nice place to come back to at a less-busy (and perhaps cooler) time!