Preparing for PIP 2023 – DID YOU CATCH ANY PIKE TODAY?
The Good News – Per Max, more Pike are being harvested regularly than before the Pike Improvement Project started. Last summer’s DNR Creel Survey 2022
The Good News – Per Max, more Pike are being harvested regularly than before the Pike Improvement Project started. Last summer’s DNR Creel Survey 2022
Pike Improvment Project Information
Chippewa Flowage Walleye 2022 – by Max Wolter I’m pleased to report that after our big spring walleye survey we know a whole lot more
The open water season of the Pike Improvement Project is underway.May is a vital month for keeping Northern Pike and our goal is to register
It’s March, which means the pike get a 2 month break from being targeted by anglers. The Pike Improvement Project kicked off in early January,
How you can make fishing better on the Chip… by eating fish! Max Wolter-WDNR Welcome to the beautiful Chippewa Flowage, I hope you have a
Learn how to fillet a Northern Pike by watching this video How to Fillet a Northern Pike. Includes Y-Bone Removal DNR Fish Biologist: Max Wolter
The Wolter Report (Max Wolter, DNR fisheries biologist, Hayward): Catch and release angling for many Wisconsin species has become common and anglers practicing catch and
The Wolter Report (Max Wolter, DNR fisheries biologist, Hayward): As a part of the new experimental panfish regulations now in place on approximately 100 lakes
We encountered something alarming on the Chippewa Flowage today during our fish survey. We captured a musky on the west side with a red zip
The Wolter Report (Max Wolter DNR fisheries biologist, Hayward): Why ice is good: The incredibly warm February could have area anglers thinking open water is
Winterkill: The Wolter Report (Max Wolter, DNR fisheries biologist, Hayward): At this point in the winter, both anglers and fish biologists start to think about
The Wolter Report: Max Wolter, DNR fisheries biologist, Hayward: Once again, in early 2017, we find ourselves in the midst of strange weather patterns. The
A look at Northern Pike: Wisconsin DNR researcher Dan Oele and his colleagues recently published a paper examining how northern pike populations respond to length
We just completed a growth analysis of walleye on the Chippewa Flowage. I had a batch of spines from the spring of 2016 and another
This fall the Chippewa Flowage will be stocked with a lot of exceptionally large muskellunge fingerlings. The fingerlings were reared at the Governor Thompson Fish
WDNR ON THE FLOWAGE: 2016 Is The Year of the Musky Spring – Collect eggs Summer – add super food Fall – Stock bigger fingerlings
Max Wolter Reports:
The Wolter Report (Max Wolter, DNR fisheries biologist, Hayward): Anglers fishing the Hayward area may occasionally catch a warmouth, a small brown or almost purple sunfish with black stripes around the eyes.
The Chippewa Flowage Partners Group, comprised of appointed representatives from the Chippewa Flowage Area Property Owners Association, the Lake Chippewa Flowage Resort Association, the WI
by SAWYER COUNTY FISHERIES BIOLOGIST MAX WOLTER Over the winter of 2013-2014 the Chippewa Flowage Partner Group (made up of the WDNR, Property Owners Association,