Chippewa Flowage
Legendary muskie water that produced the long-standing world-record muskellunge in 1949.
Depth & Structure
A 15,000+ acre impoundment flooding 10 former lake basins: most water runs 15-25 ft deep at summer levels, with the deepest part at 92 ft in the old river channels. Stained brown water over sand/gravel/rock and muck, with stump fields, floating bogs, bars, reefs, log cribs, weed beds in shallow bays and about 140 islands.
Best Lures
Muskie: large double-bladed bucktails and topwater baits in summer (including over shallow weed 'slop'), smaller bucktails/spinnerbaits and side-to-side jerkbaits in spring back bays, and bigger jerkbaits/crankbaits in fall. Walleye: live bait rigs and vertical jigging along deep weedlines, rock piles and stumps in…
Best Baits
Live sucker minnows on a quick-set rig are the reported fall muskie presentation; walleye fishing is live-bait rig led, with casting artificials primary for muskie most of the season.
Gear to Bring
Heavy baitcasting muskie outfit with braided line and wire/fluorocarbon leader for bucktails, jerkbaits and topwater; medium spinning gear, 2500 size reel, 6-10 lb line for walleye jigging and live bait rigs.
Local Tips
['Wind pushes baitfish to the upwind side of structure - active muskies use steep breaks and weeds on the windblown side to ambush prey.', 'In early fall muskies slide to inside weed edges and can be in less than 2 ft of water; in summer, guides warn the…
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Related Water
Fish photos: muskellunge — Wikimedia Commons · walleye — Wikimedia Commons · crappie — Wikimedia Commons
Fishing regulations, seasons and limits change — always check the current rules for this water before you fish. Spot pins are approximate area markers, not launch or access coordinates.