Chippewa Flowage
Walleye Fishing Guide
The Chippewa Flowage — 'the Chip' — is 15,300 acres of stained, structure-rich water in northwest WI, max depth 94 feet. Famous as the lake that produced the world-record muskie (Louie Spray, 1949), it's still one of the top muskie waters in North America, with strong walleye and panfish for the off-cast.
Species Present
- Muskellunge
- Walleye
- Northern Pike
- Largemouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass
- Bluegill
- Crappie
Lake Layout & Key Structure
Endless wood — stumps, deadheads, log jams. Plus rocky humps, deep holes, weed beds, and old river channels. The flowage is a bug factory — fertile water with cover everywhere.
Seasonal Walleye Tactics
Walleyes hit the rocky points and old creek channels 5–12 ft. Crappies in the back bays — slip bobbers over wood.
Muskie season opens — pull big bucktails along weed edges and over rocky humps. Walleyes on cabbage edges and the deeper channels 12–18 ft.
Trophy muskie time on the Chip. Sucker rigs on weed-rock transitions. Walleyes hit big shiners shallow.
Walleye in 18–28 ft on structure breaks. Crappies suspended in deeper basin holes (30–45 ft).
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