Anyone familiar with this area?  Was thinking of checking it out for some canoe camping and maybe some squirrel hunting.  (Even through I haven’t seen a squirrel on public land in 7 years I still try)

Can’t seem to find much info on it.  Seems like the fishing might not be all that great, still might be a good camping spot.

I'll check it out ...not very far from the house and I have a buddy on a lake next door I will ask him about it...his son is a local guide.
Lots of folks kayak fish those lakes and do pretty well for crappie and bluegill...sounds like it might have decent population of smallies...
You've got the bike trails right there now...and Nichols is a pretty good beach.
2 years ago it had a Secci depth of 18ft...not too shabby...60ft deep...no muck....

Was gonna stop and get some pics for you on my way back from town but it started raining and hasn't let up...
Maybe tomorrow?

I’ll probably do a camping trip here in late Sept…do some fishing and squirrel hunting.  

Looks like the lake isn’t a ‘no motor’ lake according to the boats I see on the satellite view.  Seems like there’s no unusual fishing regs.  

The Bittersweet lakes are my go-to canoe/camping area but kind of getting bored with them as it’s pretty much just largemouth bass and catch and release only.  Fishing is awesome, but catching the same fish over and over with no fish fry opportunities gets pointless.  Also knowing you’re not going to catch anything other than a bass is, meh.

Like these areas because campsites are reservable.  Nice not stressing about finding an open campsite like TTF or Willow.  In a canoe it’s not quite as easy to zip around scouting campsites.

electric motors are ok
no horsepower limit on electric motors as far as I can see
have been busy last couple of days and have to take my dog in for surgery later this week
might get to take some pics tomorrow

Was just out there early this am
Very clear lake
Sandy bottom
Nice boat landing with small roll in dock
Secluded nothing but big woods all around
Fairly deep 50ft or so
Saw some smallies under the dock
bike trail now goes all the way to off of H to the access road
took some pics just got to get them out on the host site we use

Lake looks beautiful, crystal clear water.  

Not sure how squirrel hunting will be up there but I’ll give it a try.  Haven’t seen a gray squirrel outside of an urban park or suburban backyard for at least 15 years now.

We have not only grey squirrels here in adundance, but we have all black ones too, in abundance. By "here" I mean the Nicolet National Forest and Vilas County in general. The bastards have chewed through the wire leads on the solar panels for our Tactacam cameras on our bear baits 3 times in last month. We had to switch to armored cables, and they still got at the plug end on the camera. Just yesterday, I welded 3" pieces of 1" square steel tubing to bottom of the camera "bear-boxes" where cables go in, to keep those rodent bastards off the plugs on the new armored cables we had to order.

We know it's squirrels doing it because they climb over the camera box to get to the solar panel wiring coming down from above, and we've gotten pictures of their tails as they go past the lens. My buddy was in the ladder stand over a bait, hunting over the weekend (bait hunters' season opened 9-4), and he saw an all black one on the camera box for about 30 minutes. Next day when replenishing bait, we discovered the chewed up plug.

Acorns are dropping now, so look for areas of oak trees and you'll find the squirrels.

Just got back from a 3 night trip here.

The lake is beautiful but the fishing sucks.  A  few 10in bass is about all I could find…and they weren’t very plentiful nor aggressive.  Lake is super clear so you look straight to the bottom and see there’s no fish.  Worked all 3 miles of shoreline hoping I could find a weed patch with panfish.  Never did so I got deprived of a fish fry.  Being so clear and deep I wonder if the DNR ever thought about stocking with trout?

Lots of forest area completely surrounding the lake so I did get some squirrel hunting in.  I broken my decade long dry spell…I actually got one.  That was luck as the next day I must have trudged miles through the forest and never saw a thing.  Pretty thick with mostly maple trees.  Oaks were few and far between.  

This place is very popular with paddlers.  Even once the weekday hit I was surprised by some random kayak.  Holy hell is the noise off Hwy 51 loud.  Of course with the fall ride happening last weekend I was serenaded to sleep with the constant rumbling of straight piped Harleys.  But then every truck that traveled that highway.  Then some roar of, I don’t know, farm or logging equipment.  But why at 10pm?  A samsquatch could have been pilfering my food barrel and I probably wouldn’t hear it.  

Maybe I’ll give this area another go for the hunting opportunities but really wish the fishing was better.