Chippewa Flowage, Sawyer County (all postings)

I'm looking for suggestions on walleye and smallmouth artificial lures. I'm getting worn out with jigs and live bait. I spend too much time in the car and counting ice cubes and worrying about shade.

I have a decent collection of Rapalas, but mostly in drab colors. Also basic Mepps and spoons, a few other things too. What should I add?

No problem ecmuskyman. Have a great summer also!

I want to thank you Mylimit4 for clarifying that and I respect you for doing so. Glad you respect the fishery and wish you a great summer on the water. Enjoy many of fish fries.

Hi everyone,

Guided a Father/Son, Doug and Collin, from Webster city Iowa for a full day. We had an excellent day boating 14 walleyes and keeping three. We could have kept more but kept just enough for a good lunch. Also caught 4 northerns and kept one.

We had a very active day as we lost so many more walleyes then we caught and the action seemed non-stop at times. We went through about 8 dozen minnows and fishing in the wood cover we lost a lot of jigs. Luckily, I use lead-free jigs, because we found the walleyes buried in the wood.

It stopped raining as I picked them up and never rainrd sgain all day but remained heavy clouds with a cool air temp in the 40's and what turned out to be a consistent North wind just enough to make a good walleye chop. The water temps were 59 degrees so the water is still on a warming trend. With all the rain the lake level is very high. The high levels have caused a lot of wood to be floating around. Had to dodge a lot of logs the last few days. Caught walleyes in more places as it seems the walleyes are slowly starting to hunt the food shelves to replenish their strength after the spawning ritual. Good luck fishing everyonne.

Walleyemaxx

I appreciate your concern however let's clarify so I'm not listed as a poacher. My limit a day is 15 crappies max with 25 panfish total per day. Since I fished crappies exclusively with releasing bluegills and small perch. Based on my calculation, that's 30 maximum with possession. I was fishing with my little son so I could double he count but I kept my limit only. I had a fish fry 3 days and brought home 20 crappies filleted. I hope this clarifies your concern because I respect all waters and rules. I have enough expenses for my fishing hobby (boat, tackle, maintenance and etc.) to add potential fishing fines for a few extra fish.

Tight lines

fhnb92 I like how you brought that up. I remember that and hope they were watched up there this year. Kinda funny how you brought it up and a few post later Mylimit4 talks about keeping his limit of crappie everyday for 6 days. 50 possession and that would be 100 fish over unless they had huge fish fries every night. I remember when the crappies crashed up there and were asked to release them back in the early 90's and the limit was 10. I hope people keeping their limit everyday doesn't cause this problem again. Just because your up for a week doesn't give you the right to keep your limit every day. Thats why there is possession limits. My 2 cents worth

Fished from 5/16-5/21. Weather fluctuated from rain, sunny to storms during our stay. We limited out with crappies each day fishing from 2ft-4ft in Sibley Bay, Hay Creek and Moss Creek. All crappies kept where 8"-13".Water temperature was 56 - 66 degrees by the end of our trip. I always enjoy my vacation to Hayward area for fishing.

All they got was a 2 year revocation??? that's a joke. Considering you don't get checked often anyways. I understand the DNR wardens cant just go to every lake and check licenses all day, for that very reason the fines should have hurt a lot more than that.

Maybe its just me. Ive always followed the laws to the letter. (maybe that's why this pisses me off sooooo much.) If you rip apart the resources like that they should drop the big hammer on ya.

Cronk

I understand this is a couple year old story but I just read it for the first time.. WOW!!

Just got home from chip. Was there tues. to tues. Water warmed up on thurs. and got into the crappies in some shallow bays where the temp. got up to 60 to 62. The sad and big news from up there was that the poachers from milwauke were there.If you dont remember they wre caught with over 3000 fish over the limit. What the *&%@#*%. All I could hope for is that it pours frigin rain everyday cuase they wont go out in the rain and that the DNR keeps a close tab on how many fish they keep. In my opinion they got a slap on the wrist and should never be allowed to fish again. The destruction has to stop .DNR are you going to stop this? RRRRRRRRRRRg. Jim

Guided today for walleye for Pat and Dawn out of Treelands today. We threw count downs all day and caught about 20 small northern. Started out by losing a 20 incher right at the boat. Later in the mornin we lost another nice walleye on a slip float and monnow. Right before lunch we caught a 20.5 inch eye on a orange count down.

After lunch we caught nothin Casting. Dead Had a fun day on the water with two very nice people from south of the border. All fish released.

Fishing was better today. I went out this morning and did take me some time to find fish. I found walleyes in 10-18 fow. I kept missing fish using plastics so I went with minnows and I started putting some fish in the boat. I didn't find any real nice ones but I did keep a 16" 15" 14" for supper. All the fish I have been finding are in some type of wood for cover.

Tom Christianson (AKA WalleyeMaxx) took me & a friend out on sat. 5/18. (yes, that was me Thurs. on lake link instead of working)

We fished in the rain all morning, moving numerous times trying to find the fish. WalleyeMaxx knows what he is doing on the Chipp. Flowage. If the fish are not actively biting where you are, then you must go find them. Many of us anglers spend way too much time in a non-productive spot.

WAlleyeMaxx put us on some walleyes, perch, & pike throughout the day & we all had a great time. His fishing techniques are a little different than our lazy slip bobber fishing. We fished with his own hand made lead free jigs all day & definitely understand why lead free is so important. (there are a few snags under there)

The flowage is an incredibly beautiful & productive body of water. Let's do what we can to keep it that way for future generations.

WalleyeMaxx is a top notch guide & person. He freely gave us numerous tips & tricks to use which will help us be more productive on any body of water. I would recommend hiring him if you like to walleye fish & learn more productive ways of doing it. Hopefully he still has more dates open this spring & summer because I'll be giving him a call soon to book my next trip to the Chipp.

Henry

Went to several areas without much success. I ended up with 3-13" walleyes all caught on plastics in 14-18 fow with wood for cover. I used jigs&minnows too but only got the minnows peeled. I tried slip bobbers with no success.

Hi everyone,

Had Dave and D.J. out for a full day today. With stormy conditions threatening all day, we fished hard for what we caught. We caught 4 walleyes in the morning keeping two with a nice smallie released by D.J. and in the afternoon, we boated a northern and that was all we were able to muster. By mid afternoon we were chased off the lake by thunder and lightning.

We used jigs and minnows and jigs with leeches and only the minnows produced. Had a few hits on the leech but nothing took it. Most of the hits were light all day. We fished the woody flats and humps and a hard bottom point where the smallie was caught to soft bottom humps with little to show for it. The South wind was to strong to drift effectively and in a few cases the anchor was dragged.

The water temps rose to 59 degrees and the air temps got up to the mid 70's. last night we had a helluva storm that dropped 2 1/2" of rain on the Big Chip. that rose the water level even higher. I was hoping for a good bite with the conditions we had, but it didn't happen in my boat. Always tomorrow. Good luck fishing everyone.

Walleyemaxx

Hey all I will be heading up in a couple weeks. Looking for some spots for Walleye and Crappie. I have a small boat so I don't plan on traveling to far. I have my PM on so any message is welcomed. I will be located at chippewa pines. Thanx everyone.