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| I am planning on making a trip with my buddy to the Hayward area Oct. 19-22. If there is anyone willing to discuss the area with an experienced angler, but someone not familiar with the Hayward Area lakes, it would be greatly appreciated.
My uncle has a place on Grindstone and we plan to stay there. Where we fish is yet to be determined.
Please pm me if you are open to sharing some information and I would be more than willing to hook you up with Twin Cities Metro info or a couple lake X's that I know of in MN or WI - at least they are lake X in my book.
Shoot me a pm if you are willing to network and share some info. I am not looking to publicize anyone's waters, just looking to have a good time with a buddy fishing waters we don't have experience on. Yes, part of the fun is figuring out a body of water, but there are many lakes in this region and just trying to shorten the learning curve.
Thanks in advance for your willingness to help out! Feel free to hit me up for info as well. I am always willing to share.
Tony |
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| I don't fish much up by Hayward but try and pick a different lake in that area each fall to try and fish. You may want to check out the results of the Muskie Tourney from this past weekend. Lots of good information here. It was a 3 day tourney on about 17 lakes around Hayward.
http://www.haywardbait.com/ |
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Location: Hartford Wi | Can be good fishing around there if you dont hit turnover!
Edited by Esox2hart 10/5/2011 10:00 AM
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Location: Smith Creek | Go to Spider or Moose or Lost Land day 1 and catch a fish or three, then spend the rest of your time on Grindstone chasing lunkers. You could try Round and LCO for lunkers too, I think Grindstone is the easiest to figure out of the three. I would not recommend fishing all three in three days (too much structure and low density populations). You might get lucky but I think you'd be better off concentrating your efforts on one. |
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| no love for the chippewa flowage? it's not too far outside of hayward and even though it is a lot of water to cover there's plenty of great musky fishing. it may be a chain better fished when you have a full week to learn it though. i've been going up there for the past 15 years or so and only fished half of it, haha! plus i've got to mention John Detloff and Ty Sennett, both are extraordinary guides on that water.
Edited by 10,000 Casts 10/5/2011 10:55 AM
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Location: Smith Creek | I thought about mentioning The Chip, beautiful body of water with pretty good numbers and size. I always find find myself driving past it to get to the clear lakes. |
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| well, 23 kids managed to boat 56 muskies in 2 days on Moose last week.... |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Speak of the devil, I'm hitting the Chip from Friday-Sunday. Is the warmer water going to push them up shallow again or should I hit the river channels/fall patterns? Any opinions? I hear I need to throw green bucktails.
Tony, I'll report back Sunday. I'll make sure to call at midnight to wake up the girls. |
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Location: Hayward ,Wisconsin | The flowage water level is down about 2' . The boat launch on spider is under constuction. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Hit the Chip Friday and Saturday. We stayed at Sisko's Pine Point and it was exactly what we were looking for. Quiet, rustic, and really nice people. The fishing was brutal. Couldn't hold on spots very well on Friday since it was blowing a solid 35 mph all day. Fished Pete's, Big Banana, Little Banana, Pine, Sand Island, Birch Island, Cedar Tops, couple shoreline runs and dawged the river channel and saw two fish the whole time. Caught 6 pike. Only had one sucker get a look from a low 40's.
Sunday we hit a local spot on the way back and got a 39 on a sucker. |
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