It is Brian…who is this?

I am from Rochester but the buck was from Houston County.

thanks for the quick responses. I will mix it 50:1 and experiment from there. I’m anxious to see what the oil pump does when I have the motor running. I hope that I won’t have to listen to that low oil alarm the whole time I am running it if the pump isn’t working. Thanks again guys.

Jason,
Do you catch many flatheads above Wissota?

I have never fished that far south on the Chippewa. I did try for flatheads below the Holcombe dam on the uppermost part of the Cornell Flowage a couple years ago. Out of the three times I tried with live bait I caught one flathead that was about 18″, other than that I didn’t get any hits on the live. I figured that fish was an anomaly, and that must be about the northermost portion of their range on the river. I have fished live bait on the chippewa above holcombe and caught tons of channels but never once have i seen or caught a flathead.

Bob

John,

I have caught catfish on tube jigs plenty of times when I was targeting smallies.

For hooks, I use about a 5/0 up to 7/0 circle hook depending upon the size of the bait. I prefer to use baits that came out of the lake I am fishing(gills work great), but a nice 2 inch chunk of cut sucker will work well.

I cube them by cutting down through the back bone and out the gut. The fresher the better.

I think that the cats that live in the river or near the mouth of it are more agressive fish than your average catfish. I have caught alot of the bigger ones on live suckers as well.

Normally when I go out with a buddy we will start off by fishing one rod with a live sucker or gill, one with cutbait, and one with nightcrawlers to see which the fish prefer.

Bob

John,
great to read your post. Congrats on the new boat! Sorry I didn’t get back on sooner and reply. I have fished Pine a number of times, never for gills or crappies though. I know there has got to be some big pike in there, it’s great that you got 2 36 inchers that must have been fun. For a little lake it is one of the fishiest lookin places I’ve seen. I have also had some good luck around the blue bridge for smallies and crappies. I’ve done really well on big channels up by where the flambeau and chip flow in above the highway D bridge, two summers ago I got a 18lb 4oz channel, and every summer we get them between 10 and 14. Just look for deep holes in the river channel, I always use 1/2 to 1 oz. sinker ahead of a swivel with about a 2 foot leader, a big circle hook and fresh cut bait for the big ones. Let me know how you do on opener.
Bob

What’s up,
I have fished pine a number of times during the summer. No luck, just small pike and a few short smallies. I have seen a number of large fish surfacing around the rock shoal(early morning and late evening) I have fished for bass, ski’s, and eye’s in here, all methods that I could think of for presentation with not much luck. I personally do not think that this lake has enough of a seperate ecosystem to hold really large fish (based on my personal experience) Hope this post finds you, even though it is 2 years late.

This is my first post! I love you guys here at IDO I’ve been a lurker for too long (under a different name of course) I like the DD-22, it is a big, fat, wide crank, with a huge wobble. I like it for bumping off of deep cover. It seems to go through weeds, rocks, and stumps with relative ease. However, I like the brush baby better for heavy cover applications. Hope I could help