Lake Chippewa Flowage News Archives
Muskie Caught Four Times: A 47-inch, 27-pound, 2-ounce Chippewa Flowage muskie caught on Aug. 11 by Jim Kniprath of Wisconsin Rapids had been caught and released four times before, records show. The last angler who released the tagged fish, Jim Chinnock of Hayward, dubbed the fish “Long Face” because of its
Louie Spray’s Muskie Reinstated Louie Spray’s Muskie Reinstated: Four years ago on Aug. 6, 1992, Art Lawton’s world record muskie, originally thought to have been 69 pounds, 15 ounces and 64 1/2 inches long, was discovered to have been falsified (greatly exaggerated in size) and was officially disqualified jointly by both
Muskies Put Big Chip On Map: By Dan Small Sawyer County’s Chippewa Flowage is one impressive body of water. A Northern States Power Company hydroelectric dam near Winter at the confluence of the East and West Forks of the Chippewa River flooded 10 lake basins back in 1923, creating the Big
In around 1939 Jacob Kuykendall, Jr.’s grandfather Fred Kirk “caught” a musky that weighed 72 pounds out of the Chippewa Flowage, in the Blueberry lake area. As the prize was taken by spear, he did not record it as a catch but he did weigh it on an ice scale and
