I'll be using a couple big jigs like that if we can find a mid lake reef or just a quick breaking main lake point. I have a couple hand pours I bought at the sports show a decade and a half ago that are about 9-10" long shad baits.
I was researching the lake I'm going to and I found out that there are a lot of 1-2# lakers in it, supposedly all over the lake. Sounds like primo forage for giant pike and big lakers.
I'll be hitting the Bayley Bay basin sometime during Aug. 4-10. I have a theory that the peninsula between the Burke and Sunday portages extends Southwest right across the middle of the basin to the point West of the bay that points at Manomin Lake (Rice Bay?). The general topography of the area is ridge lines in that NE-SW direction, look at the peninsula that makes up the Western shore of Bayley and the general shape of the lakes around there. Finding a sunken island out there would be dy-no-mite. It would have to be a very calm day to paddle out there a mile from any shoreline though. It's a really big area of open water.
I also always wanted to fish the main lake side of the island that sits in the middle of Sunday Bay and the narrows on either side of it. The wind was always blowing into it from across Bayley whenever I've paddled past it. It's just got to have a bunch of big predatory fish on it just sitting there chowing down on pelagic baitfish being blown in to them. Plus the proximity to both deep water and the shallow, weedy-ish, somewhat meso bay would be kickass even without the trophy potential of the big basin.

Did you know that the #2 North American record pike came out of Basswood? 45# 12 Oz in 2002.
There is only one claimed to be bigger - from NY, 46#2 Oz. in 1940.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."