Deerfoot Lodge: Patrick Schroeder from New York reeled in this monster channel cat today, measuring in at 33″ and 15 lbs.

The Smallmouth action on the Southeast portion of the Flowage has been outstanding. Those fishing in those areas report a lot of action around stumpy and rocky shorelines. Spinnerbaits and Mepps have been popular, but the real action has come on imitation plastic craws. The imitation craws have been outperforming other

This particular Snag Seemed to be Moving! July 20th, 2016 I was fishing with Bill and Jeff the other evening. We started out fishing for Walleyes. To say the least, things we’re a tad slow. Caught 3 shorts (under 15 inch min) and a few Gill’s down deep. We then switched

Rick Richter of Hayward caught this 53-inch, 46-pound musky Monday, Sept. 1, on the Chippewa Flowage.

Labor Day 2014 I guided a father and son team, Greg and Cory Oimoen, from Blue Mound, WI. They were interested in a Musky hunt. They both had never fished for musky at all and with Greg having limited mobility in his left arm, this kind of fishing could possibly pose

PT was new to musky fishing. His intention was to practice throwing a musky bait in Jackie’s Bar/the Sticks, in preparation to moving around the corner to Mittens Bar. It was 70 degrees and…..

Thirty-one competing teams brought 117 bass weighing 267 pounds to the scales at Hayward Bass Club’s annual Chippewa Flowage Open Tournament on July 28th. The fish averaged 2.28 lbs and all fish were released alive and lively. The day was cold and wet with temperatures starting at 49 degrees and eventually

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The Landing on County Road CC – PRIZES – PRIZES – PRIZES!

WDNR Fish Team Leader Dave Neuswanger and several friends from Missouri stayed in the Sturgeon Cabin and enjoyed a great week of fishing and camaraderie. The warm, welcoming hospitality of Barb and Pete Czarnecki was second to none! Dave has summarized the group’s experiences and observations below. Dave and Pat Shannon

New “Musky Jaws” found on the Chippewa Flowage! On September 28th, 2008, nearly 10 years after a massive musky jawbone was discovered on Lake Chippewa Flowage another apparently larger set of Musky jaws was found by duck hunter Chris Weber. Weber was walking along the shores of Hay Creek down from

Remains of a large Musky was found on the Chippewa Flowage The remains of what is believed to be a large musky have been found on the shoreline of an island on the Chippewa Flowage, Hayward, Wisconsin. I will share with you what I know as factual and keep you apprised

This story starts out with the annual pilgrimage to the Chippewa Flowage for the Hayward Chapter of Muskies Inc October Tournament. This tournament is always a camaraderie trip with my partners and myself really looking forward to this event year after year. The weather is always the hot topic immediately prior

Melanie’s First Musky By C. Meyer (Guest Writer) Melanie got hooked on fishing in a big way this summer. While Melanie has caught her share of panfish and seen her brother land a few smaller northern pike her quest to catch a musky had not happened. She would exclaim, “I am

Lucky Charlie By C. Meyer (Guest Writer) On a beautiful fall day on the Chippewa Flowage my client Charlie Bark “Lucky Charlie” and myself mused about what we would catch that day. We would be shore fishing with circle hook rigged suckers and even though Charlie was not too sure of

By The Moon Man (Bill Meiser) You can see the storm front coming in over Pete’s Bar on a late Wednesday after noon–after 25 minutes on Pete’s, these two Musky were caught and released in less than 10 minutes on four casts. Guided by Tanner Wildes out of Treeland Resorts.  

2003 A Tremendous Big Chip Musky Year According to the Big Chip musky historian John Dettloff, “these are the “good old days” on the Chip. More muskies are being caught of larger average size than ever before.” In the 1970’s, records show that the average musky caught on the Chip averaged

Although the muskie action in 2001 had its normal ups and downs, as all muskie seasons have, overall… this past year was a great muskie year on the Chippewa Flowage. The season started out a little slow because of the cold early June nights, but once mid June set in we

Some of you may recall the story of the giant set of musky jaws found on the Chippewa Flowage on October 31, 1998. According to Frank Pratt, the Hayward Area Fisheries Manager of the Department of Natural Resources, the jaws were most likely from a giant musky which had for some

A Flying, Floppy, Fish Tale: This is a story about a fish I caught. Today, July 29, 2001 we started our family fishing trip. 1 minute, nothing 2 minutes, nothing 3 minutes, nothing 5 minutes, nothing 10 minutes, BAIT GOT CAUGHT IN A TREE BRANCH OVERHANGING THE WATER. Just as we

Eleven-year-old catches first two Muskies: After fishing several hours on the northeast section of the Chippewa Flowage Neil Weigen, age 11, of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin caught his first two muskies on Monday, July 3, 2000, within 30 minutes. the first fish, caught around 2 p.m., was 36-1/2″ and the second was

By: Terrell Boettcher Huge Skeletal Muskie Jaw Found: The year 1998 was a phenomenal, unprecedented year for numbers of large muskellunge caught in the Hayward area, and nowhere more so than on the Chippewa Flowage, where at least nine muskies from 50 to 54 inches long were boated (six of them

A four-year-old Phillips boy, Josh Lemke, caught a whopper 46 1/2-inch, 24-pound, 10-ounce Monster Musky on the Chippewa Flowage on Sunday, June 21. The boy was accompanied by his parents, and three older brothers ranging up to 7 years old in the boat. It was the first time he had ever

Muskie Caught Four Times: A 47-inch, 27-pound, 2-ounce Chippewa Flowage muskie caught on Aug. 11 by Jim Kniprath of Wisconsin Rapids had been caught and released four times before, records show. The last angler who released the tagged fish, Jim Chinnock of Hayward, dubbed the fish “Long Face” because of its

Muskies Put Big Chip On Map: By Dan Small Sawyer County’s Chippewa Flowage is one impressive body of water. A Northern States Power Company hydroelectric dam near Winter at the confluence of the East and West Forks of the Chippewa River flooded 10 lake basins back in 1923, creating the Big