Chippewa Flowage
Action on the chip has continued to be consistent. Surface baits in the evening and threw the night have been the best action. Monday night I guided Bob Mason to a nice 48" on a pacemaker.
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Permalink Reply by Tom Boley on -
53 inch tiger. What a slobasaurus. Thats got to be one pretty fish.
Any Pix. Wow.....
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Permalink Reply by Pete Rich on -
No I don't have any pix. The guy who got it is not an avid musky fisherman. So other than it showing up on Indian Trails web site or unless the fishing hall of fame recognizes it as the release world record it probably wont make any musky web sites. But I was there when he go the fish. It was kinda skinny probably on her way out but a very beautiful fish.
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Permalink Reply by Dean on -
Was up from 15 to 21st. On the 19th, had nice calm conditions and at 9pm had a big one hit on a ghosttail, felt a little nip then another, then a good hit, lost track of it as it rushed off the bar, then it was wallowing right next to boat about 2 ft away, all I could see was the mid section as it rolled, could feel the scales scrapping as it rolled on a tight line. Had to have close to 4 foot between the tail and head, then just as nice as you please the lure pulled out. Was my biggest encounter and with deer hunting and everything else, never had my knees shake like that. Kathy asked why is the boat shaking, I had to admit it was my knees, took a good 5 minutes for them to quit. What a night, clear calm stars out. Got back to indian trails and one of the guys was resusitating a 48 incher that inhaled his home made creeper, had only 2 inches of a 12 in leader out of the mouth when he got it. Tried to get her going on the lake but was having no luck so he came back. She seemed pretty listless, then Fred Hirsch asked if he had burped her. Fred had him roll her on her back and a big stream of bubbles came out. She immediately showed some vigor, in a minute or two she was ready and left to do battle another day. That same night one of the guys got that 52/53 inch tiger, it is a probable line clase record for hybrid catch and release.
Other than that. had a few follows but battled wind and rain most of the time. Run a smaller alumacraft and it makes dealing with the wind a challenge. Seemed like there were a couple of good fish caught each day, the numbers of high 40 inch fish are definetly up this year. Water was low and in the low 70's then fell to 69 after the rain. Going back up in 3 weeks to try her again. Dean
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Permalink Reply by Pete Rich on
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So I finally saw a good pic of the "53" tiger. It was a hell of a tiger but I think the guys in there excitment had missmeasured the fish. Not taking anything away from the fish but 47" would make more sense.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Murphy on -
Was fishin the chip a couple weeks ago, buddy caught a nice 41 off petes on a double wannabe cowgirl...dark metallic green blades with silver and green skirt...Buddy isnt a real avid muskie angler and saw a follow and said "theres a fsih follwing my lure" then he took the bait out of the water with no 8...I made him put it back in and he made a figure 1 instead of an 8 and still managed to get bit. Same day my buddies were out with tanner and they boated a fatty 46...Next day we went with tanner and i lost a mid 40s on a cowgirl on the 8. tanner had a nice follow by treelands then I caught a fat 44 on the cowgirl right at the end. After tanner dropped us off We went back out and I lost a huge one on a pacemaker in shallow weeds im guessing 48ish. Jumped and threw the bait after a 10 second battle. I wasnt even mad because it was so cool to see. Next day i didnt see a fish but my buddies boat lost a 50+ on a pacemaker close to musky bay and had a couple more follows. This was hearsay so who knows how big it was all he said was it was the biggest fish he ever saw. These were the 3 days after the full moon
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Permalink Reply by Rob Barabe on -
Anybody been out lately? Hows the fishing been? I will be up next week. Will report when I get back. Hopefully they are still snapping good. Good luck to you.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Malack on -
I don't fish the Chippewa Flowage, so this won't really change my life any. But going on the Indian Trails web page is like a time travel back to the 1960's. See a good 3-4 dead muskies hanging from ropes and trees. Too bad John Detloff doesn't realize that while big fish are present how much better it could be if those fish were put back.
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Permalink Reply by Rob Barabe on
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Got out Friday with no luck. High skies, no wind and warm made it not ideal conditions. But I fished hard. Just couldnt seem to move any fish. Sounds like some of the guys I talked to did okay fishing at night with the full moon.
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Permalink Reply by andracke on -
Was able to land a 45" on Saturday night on the West side. I put some pictures up on my page. We saw a couple other fish thourghout the weekend. Overall a nice weekend except for the traffic!!
Rob Barabe said:Got out Friday with no luck. High skies, no wind and warm made it not ideal conditions. But I fished hard. Just couldnt seem to move any fish. Sounds like some of the guys I talked to did okay fishing at night with the full moon.
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Permalink Reply by Dean on
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was up from 12 to 19 Sept, hot and no wind water temps were up to 79 till thursday. Had some action but slow,
Had some follows, blew two hits including one that was an incredible experience. Wens nite at about 9 pm was working a bar, had come down with a bucktail and began going up with a large pace maker. The pacemaker was working great, nice pop pop, almost like a creeper. After about the 8th cast, someone catapulped a refrigerator where I was retrieving. Felt a slight pull but reacted too late. I have never experienced such a violent loud splash with such a duration. Was in about 3 foot of water, I was casting from 9 foot. Threw back again but would have to confess I was almost apprehensive. Was a totally dark night and I was in an area all to myself. Came back across it with a creeper, no luck. The next night it splashed at my pacemaker. The next day I worked it again early in the morning, no luck with the pacemaker or bucktail. As I was getting ready to move on, looked over my shoulder just in time to see it porpoise, saw 4 inches of back twenty feet away in 12 foot of water, almost as if it wanted me to know it was still there and was not going to be fooled again, really made the week even if I was skunked. Dean
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Permalink Reply by Dean on
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I have never seen a musky killed there since I have been going, I suspect you were looking at some historical pictures on the web site.
Brian Malack said:I don't fish the Chippewa Flowage, so this won't really change my life any. But going on the Indian Trails web page is like a time travel back to the 1960's. See a good 3-4 dead muskies hanging from ropes and trees. Too bad John Detloff doesn't realize that while big fish are present how much better it could be if those fish were put back.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Markowicz on
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Brian Malack said:I don't fish the Chippewa Flowage, so this won't really change my life any. But going on the Indian Trails web page is like a time travel back to the 1960's. See a good 3-4 dead muskies hanging from ropes and trees. Too bad John Detloff doesn't realize that while big fish are present how much better it could be if those fish were put back.
I only counted 2 pictures of harvested fish on the home page of the Indian Trail website. The picture of the deer and muskie hanging in the tree, that was taken in the early 80's I believe. That was around the time when the idea of catch and release was just entering the musky fishing world. Some people did it, some people didn't. The other picture, if you would have taken time to read the story, died shortly after being netted and was intended to be released. I'm guessing there are other pictures of kept muskies else where on the web site that were taken long before catch and release settled in. Thats how is was back in the old days and not just on the Flowage. Look at Leech Lake, St. Lawrance River, pretty much anywhere people fished for muskies at that day and age... like it or not, muskies were killed when caught. Now a days, 99.9999999% of the fish caught out of that resort or anywhere for that matter, are put back into the water to live another day. Just like anything on this planet, musky fishing started and it evolved.
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