Petenwell Flowage (all postings)

sorry walleyeguy I turned it on now.. We will be down there tommorow afternoon. Info would be awesome!!!

Heading up to Petenwell June 1st with my buddy Squirrel. Wondering if anyone has general tips for musky? Not looking for anyone's secrets, just generally what works there this time of year. Structure, Baits, etc? Tight lines.

Try the back water areas on the lower section of the river. Chester creek and devils elbow. Weed areas (if you find them) or wood. Get off the channel for the gills. Crappies can be find in the same areas or look for some wood on the main channel.

Does anyone have any advise on general areas for crappie or bluegill on petenwell or the river?

chrisdan, turn on your messanger please!

Me and the family will be camping at Petenwell this weekend. Just wondering how the fishing has been. Only fished the flowage one time, and never caught a thing.. Any pointers??? We do alot of trolling and jigging.. Any info will be great.. Thanks

FISHING REPORT Guys are catching fish from shore early morning and just before dark. Long view they are catching Lots of cats few walleyes,white bass and some crappies from time to time. Tenth street launch or off the beach they are catching cats and a few keeper walleyes. Sound like a few white bass, Walleyes and tons of cats are being caught off shore at yellow banks. The trolling bite has picked up aswell. Small baits trolled at 1.5 to just under 2 have been working the best. If anyone is looking for bait,tackle,licenses,wood,food or beer are bait shop is fully stocked. We are on the west shore just north of wilderness park We open everyday at 6am (60 565 3180 If anyone is looking to get out this weekend or this summer on the big pond i have a few openings PS IF YOUR STAYING ON THE WEST SIDE YOU WILL NEED BUG SPRAY. THE MOSQUITOS ARE REALLY BAD. I will be out on guide trips and report back. Be safe and have great weekend

Will be up Saturday morning with my 10 year old son and two nephews. Any tips on where we could get some crappie or gills.

I'll be rocking my 12' rowboat with a 4 horse mosquito killer this weekend outta the county park on the east side. Just lookin' to catch some fish. Planning on longlining cranks for whitebass/walleye unless someone has a hot crappie or bluegill spot they want to share.

Oh, and if you see me rowin'...try not to laugh.

Have fun and good luck this weekend...weather looks sweet.

Was out on the pete Saturday launching @ wilderness park and headed south and fished between the park and the free launch. Caught our limit on catfish and started to troll. I caught an 18" walleye and this 28" monster on a #5 jointed Shad Rapp

Spare tire, bolt broke off the trailer on the way and that's where it wound up getting set.

Launched at Chester, tons of traffic this afternoon, out for 4 hours only had one bite, didn't see too many others slaying any either.

Scale, nice fish, bet that was fun, but I have to ask you a question. What is the tire for. A flotation device? First time I've seen that.

fished channel out in front of browns creek. fished from 3 till 6 pm caught a number of small eyes on brown 1\8 oz. feather jig an minnow cats were caught same way. a goldy spinner worked well on the white bass a few crappies were also caught on the spinners when fished over wood or some slack water with good cover. my 21 year old daughter had a blast. she liked the white bass because of the skappy fight they give on her new altralite. i beleive she also got hook up with a muskie while throwing that spinner. fight didnt last long. fish hit next to boat made good splash an threw water all over an took off.took out about 30 foot of line before getting broke off. when it rolled next to boat it look to be in 35 to 40" range. now guess what she wants to get get tackle for. this is how its starts.

Went out for a couple hours 5/16 in the afternoon, hooked into my first one of these guys, felt good. Not bad for my first one eh? This was all that we had nibble the time being out there though, plenty of carp rolling, had a few boats out there as well and didnt see them landing much either.