Retcof Lake Fishing Guide, Marinette County, Wisconsin

• Overview

  You will find Retcof Lake in Marinette County, Wisconsin. Elevation runs to 712 feet. Around 49 acres of surface means several distinct areas to work. Shoreline comes to about 1.1 miles, small enough to learn in a day. Size puts it in the front rank of our Marinette County list. For supplies, Peshtigo is 22 miles out. For a city, Green Bay is 53 miles off. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Retcof Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Marinette County records list brown trout, rainbow trout, largemouth bass and bluegill among the fish reported. The county list is broader than any single water. At Retcof Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 68°F in July and bottom out at 13°F in January. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from mid April. The water is typically free of ice between mid April and early December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. On Retcof Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. The nearest alternative is Rush Lake, 1.4 miles out. Check the current arrangement for Retcof Lake.