Lac Courte Oreilles, Sawyer County, Wisconsin — fishing destination

Sawyer County • Northwest Wisconsin

Fishing Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin

A premier multi-species lake near Hayward — deep, clear, and structurally diverse with bars, humps, and weed flats. A top destination for musky, walleye, smallmouth, and panfish. Country Cave Baits injection-pours premium soft plastic baits built for the bass, panfish and walleye that call Lac Courte Oreilles home.

5,039 acres Max depth 90 ft Sawyer County

About Lac Courte Oreilles

A premier multi-species lake near Hayward — deep, clear, and structurally diverse with bars, humps, and weed flats. A top destination for musky, walleye, smallmouth, and panfish.

Lac Courte Oreilles is located in Sawyer County in Northwest Wisconsin and is one of the state's premier fishing destinations. Anglers visiting Lac Courte Oreilles target Musky, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Crappie and Bluegill throughout the open-water season. Whether you're fishing from a boat or the shore, Lac Courte Oreilles offers diverse structure and productive water that responds well to injection-poured soft plastic baits from Country Cave Baits — made right here in Fall River, WI.

Fish Species in Lac Courte Oreilles

Musky Walleye Smallmouth Bass Largemouth Bass Crappie Bluegill

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Best Baits for Lac Courte Oreilles

Our top-recommended Country Cave Baits for fishing Lac Courte Oreilles in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. Each is injection-poured in Fall River, WI and shipped fresh to your door.

5 Inch Fluke for fishing Lac Courte Oreilles, Sawyer County, Wisconsin

$4.95

Weightless wild action

5 Inch Fluke

Our 5-inch fluke dances with an erratic, darting action on a weightless Texas rig. The soft, slim body glides and slashes through the water column, imitating a fleeing baitfish that bass simply cannot resist.

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4 Inch Skinny Paddle Tail for fishing Lac Courte Oreilles, Sawyer County, Wisconsin

$5.75

Swim & thump

4 Inch Skinny Paddle Tail

A slim-profile 4-inch paddle tail that swims with a seductive kick on a steady retrieve. Perfect for swim jigs, spinnerbait trailers, or a weighted swimbait hook through grass and around docks.

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Cave Prickly Star for fishing Lac Courte Oreilles, Sawyer County, Wisconsin

$12.95

Urchin-style tentacled threat

Cave Prickly Star

The Cave Prickly Star is an urchin-style creature bait with a buoyant center ball and dozens of thin, whipping tentacles that quiver on the slightest movement. It stands up off the bottom, taunts pressured bass into striking, and keeps working long after other baits die. Flip it, drag it, pin it to a jig, or throw it on a Ned rig and watch it come alive.

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1.2 Inch Crappie Slayer for fishing Lac Courte Oreilles, Sawyer County, Wisconsin

$6.50

Slab crappie magnet

1.2 Inch Crappie Slayer

Our 1.2-inch Crappie Slayer is a micro tube designed specifically for slab crappie. The tiny ribbed body and flowing tail seduce panfish into biting when the bite is tough. Rig it on a small jig head under a float or tight-line it vertically. It's also a deadly ice fishing bait — drop it through the ice to suspended crappie and bluegill all winter long.

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