Got bored and went through my old records of my catches off Hog Island. The striking thing (sorry for the pun) is that they almost all look the same. Except for so far this year (no pike landed), every day's catch seemed to be 2 or 3 pike and half a pail of perch. Here's a nautical map with some annotations.
The circled 17 mark is where my girlfriend got a 36' laker, the one that had a lamprey on it. I also got a salmon there but it was a little smaller. I also got a 7-lb walleye there on a brilliantly sunny day around 1:00, right after two girls got a similar fish right next to me. They were in a pop up and were screaming like banshees in there. I've also gotten smelt and bass (smallmouth went back and the black bass/crappie was delicious) there, too. You can access that part of the lake through Richard Levesque's yard; I see he has plowed a road and put up his sign again.
The red arrow is where I've migrated to for the last 10 years. You can see that the floor rises up from 15' to 1' over a very short distance, obviously a steep wall. The blue line is where I guess the bait fish migrate staying in the shallows so that would be, and has been, a good ambush spot for the predators.
I'm sharing this but hope nobody sets up camp over this spot on a weekday and so have marked other spots with similar bottom features. Notice the green arrow where it rises up from 19' to 2', the purple arrow rises up from deeper water but not so steeply and the pink arrow where it comes up from 21' to a rocky pile in 2' of water. I fished there several times with similar luck to the west side. I talked with a homeowner on that side the other day and he invited me to try again, says the pike have been thick in there recently.
I should have marked the pressure crack but it goes from the southern-most tip of Hog Island Point westward to Stephenson Point. I avoid it.
Good luck!
