Chippewa Flowage help

I’m heading up the the Chippewa Flowage the end of July and looking for any walleye help. I believe this is a no motor trolling body of water. If this is true is it a slip bobber or drifting bite. Maybe pitching jigs or cranks. I’ll be up there for a week and am actually thinking of getting a guide for the first time. Any help or info would be great.

What area of the flowage are you staying?

No trolling. Just like any flowage find the old river channels. Floating bogs can be productive. I’d fish cranks and crawlers. Early morning and evenings

We fish the Flowage and other area lakes all summer.

A very productive summer pattern is casting cranks along and near shoreline cover at dusk and other low-light periods. The magic combination for us is some woody cover extending out into 4-5′ with weeds nearby.

Walleyes, bass, musky…enjoy!











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Stay at Oak Shores on Chief Lake.

up there in june for ski’s and we see alot of boats slip bobbering bogs and the edge of the bars but more seem to target the floating bogs.

Google Jim stroede. He does multi species. Lots of guides only chase skis up there.

How do you find these floating bogs and river channels? Are they marked on GPS or visible. I’ve never fished a flowage before.

Get a hot spots map. They mark the bogs and river channels very clearly. The bogs can reposition due to wind, but the hot spots map gives you an idea of their typical general location. I’m headed up there for the Weekend Series in August, can’t wait.

i would get a good map so you dont hit any bars . south of petes bar there is one and the islands around that have rock bars and floating bogs in the area.

gps is not a bad idea its a big body of water. if you have a navionics or lake master chip it helps out huge.

I would highly recommend getting a guide your first day. First they can put you on fish and a big second is there is plenty to hit up there. you do have to be careful on the flowage. many rocks to hit expecially if they lower the lake level. give Tanner Wildes a pm on this site. from what I hear from friends he is a hell of a guy.

Tanner is also a little more multi species as well, as I have seen him give non-muskie reports early in the season…

Mark

Walleye fishing on the Chip can be tough in mid summer, but when you find them, you will have a blast because they will be stacked up!! as a general rule of thumb on the flowage, your smaller fish will be river channel, and the bigger fish will be the shallows. When fishing the river channel I like to find neck down area’s or area’s where there is a drop-off into the channel or a whole, all will hold fish. Black jig with a minnow, crawler or leech will get them. you can fish the bogs, I know alot of people do really well doing that, including my dad. I like to slip bobber the weeds or weed edges, and in the evening cast cranks on the weeds. Also you can fish the sunken bogs, you will see on your locator where it looks like a bunch of stumps and logs on the bottom, a good area for numbers, you will have to move alot, but like I said when you find one fish you will find a number of them. Also don’t overlook deeper humps, that don’t come up shallow enough for weeds to grow on them, they too hold walleye. Hope this helps you out a bit for your trip. if you have any questions or anything I can help you with feel free to contact me.

Thanks,
Tanner Wildes

Just a few things to consider here. If you are going with any children, you probably don’t want to fish for walleyes. the action is hard to find if you are new to the lake. Crappies, gills and bass will give you fast action at this time of year.
However, if you are dead set on “eyes” I have about 6 pages of GPS coordinates that i have accumulated over the last 15 years of fishing the flowage. I will share them with you if you send me your email address. just remember that anyone can give you coordinates or “hot spots” but you are fishing yesterday’s memories.
If you are looking for a guide, ronnie bergman has been guiding on the lake for years.
there is a guy named or nicknamed “DeanO” out of Sysko’s resort. he consistantly takes “eyes” over 20″. He has been only guiding for the last 5 years or so, but fishing the lake for over 15.
Not sure what either of them charge, but i would guess Deano is cheaper and just as good.
Hope this help you.

I would love some GPS coordinates from Hot Tamale or anyone else who can help. I’m taking my 80 year old father up to the Chippewa Flowage in mid-July to try some walleyes and/or crappies. Never fished the Chip, always been out on Teal and Lost Land lakes. We only have a week so hope to get into something; crappies and perch would be great also. Thanks for anything you can send my way.

Reviving a really old one here.

Heading up here for the first time ever this weekend with the wife and kids. I don’t anticipate much fishing time but certainly going to make it a point to get out. Also have never fished a flowage before so this is all new.

Things i plan to do:
– Get a wisco humminbird chip for sure
– Side image as much as possible if we are just cruising
– Start with a jig and plastic or maybe a lindy rigged leech

Any other words of wisdom or advice to cut the learning curve?

Walleye Hungry wrote:

Heading up here for the first time ever this weekend with the wife and kids. I don’t anticipate much fishing time but certainly going to make it a point to get out. Also have never fished a flowage before so this is all new.

Things I plan to do:
– Get a wisco humminbird chip for sure
– Side image as much as possible if we are just cruising
– Start with a jig and plastic or maybe a lindy rigged leech

Any other words of wisdom or advice to cut the learning curve?

Sorry I missed this… Considering you’ve never fished a flowage before, the best advice I can give ya is to hire a guide!!! He/she will be able to give safest routes, show you non-marked dangerous spots and get ya a spot or two to get some more fishing success.

Having the chip is certainly invaluable, but not necessarily a complete safeguard. Side imaging will possibly get a few fish and single hooks are certainly a lot cheaper in the long run as you WILL lose terminal tackle and possible lots of it in a short period of time.

Good Luck for sure and be safe!!!

Mark

Trolling is allowed now one line per person and only 3 total lines per boat. Deeper weed edges, channel edges with structure particularly wood. Find the right weed edges slip bobber at night can be good. The Chip is not one of the best Walleye lakes by any means, I have caught some nice 25-28 inch fish mostly weed fish, trolling over the tops of weeds after dark with shallow running crank baits and Beetle Spins. Me personally mostly go there for Crappie fishing.