Fishing Lower Holly Lake in Sawyer County, Wisconsin

• Overview

  Lower Holly Lake is a Sawyer County water, in Wisconsin. The country round it is rolling bush from end to end. It measures about 48 acres, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. There is roughly 1.0 miles of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. Start from Little Round Lake, 9.8 miles down the road. It is 100 miles to Saint Paul, the nearest city. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lower Holly Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Public occurrence data for Sawyer County names walleye, brown trout, largemouth bass and muskellunge. The county list is broader than any single water. On Lower Holly Lake the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 68°F at the top of summer and 9°F at the bottom of winter. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. In an average year the thaw lands around mid April and the freeze near late November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Plan any trip to Lower Holly Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. For a change of water, Pearce Lake is 0.3 miles distant. Signs at Lower Holly Lake carry more weight than any list.