Our annual family trip to the Ellsworth area was last week. Mostly fished with kids and for walleye, and had fantastic weather for vacation, and the first break from covid restrictions in months. It was great to be away for a while, and fishing wasn't really even a high priority.
I only managed to fish a few times specifically for muskies, and only contacted a couple fish. Each day that went by without musky fishing I'd convince myself that the weather wasnt great anyhow, then would see a Facebook pic of nick with a giant… so thanks for that!

Anyhow, weeds looked great, temps were from 72-80, but the 80's were very rare on calm days in shallow, still water. Mostly in the 76 range in open water. Clarity was a little below average to 8-10' max, sometimes only 5-6…

I fished mostly for walleye, because that bite was great each evening, but did decide to troll a surface, globe style bait, while trolling walleye one night. It got slammed! It's hooks stayed free… no big surprise there, but was fun to watch.

Second contact was over deeper weeds, about 12-14' on a dawg. New bait got its head gashed, but no hooks again.

Most pertinent part of the report is they continue to kill weeds on 6 mile on the Monday of our trip. They have switched to a herbicide called procellacor, which targets much more specific weeds, like milfoil, hydrilla, and floating heart. Unfortunately it doesnt know the difference between native milfoil and invasive, and they continue to treat the deeper flat at the south end of the lake, unnecessarily. The chemical does seem to leave the cabbage alone, along with some other pondweeds and celery, etc. After the second season of leaving the cabbage alone it really looks good all the way around the lake. They still are not monitoring the treatment, and it continues to negatively affect the channel and the upper part of st clair, just not as bad since the celery and cabbage remain.