The thing you have to remember with skeg and the whole lower chain for that matter is the fish/acre on that water is extremely low. Even if your fishing the best spots at the best times with the right baits the odds are still stacked against you. that's around 50-100 hours/fish water for an average muskie fisherman. Wish it was better and it certainly could be if the harvest is brought down. But I guess what I'm getting at is don't be discouraged that your doing something wrong just because you haven't seen many fish. It could happen on that next cast and be huge. Giant fish on a pretty lake make it worth putting in the hours. As for where to fish the fish can be using the deeper cabbage beds, the drop offs near deep water, or the feeding flats along the basins. There is a lot of skeg that is low percentage water that you shouldn't waste time on, so when you say you have fished the whole lake, instead try to focus on the high percentage spots. Really there is prolly only 100-200 acres of water I would have any confidence casting there. Over time you will figure out why the fish should be there. Fish location will largely depend on water clarity, wind/wave action, and seasonal forage movements. The fish mainly eat suckers and perch in skeg, with whitefish available on the menu for the fish that venture into elk.

Here is a thread from 2 years ago about fishing skeg.
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Steve, it is funny to look back at that thread and see my 2 cents added to the convo back then…2 years later, it really has not changed all that much but at least my hr/fish is no longer an undefined mathematical expression on that lake.

Nick, Skeg can be discouraging for sure at times but it is still my favorite lake to fish. You can go several trips/weekends/months in a row without even seeing a single fish out there and then see multiple fish in one day. The fish you do see out there are almost always big and it those rare glimpses of a Skegemog giant coupled with the location, scenery, and water type that keeps bringing me back. For some reason I just love fishing clear water lakes.

Steve is right though when it comes to putting in the long hours in the higher percentage areas. The best place to start on that lake is to focus on the giant weed bed between the Torch river inlet and the Baggs road access. There is tons of cabbage from 7 feet of water all the way out to 15 feet at times but most of the cabbage is 9-12 feet deep.