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Location: Normal, IL | Wayne Gutsch passed away on Friday from cancer.
My Prayers go out to him and his family.
I knew Wayne before he became famous. He used to come up to the Chippewa Flowage Campground each weekend in his pickup camper and pound the lake for muskies. I witnessed him bring in his first 30 pounder back in the 70's, and then a few days later he caught his second. One funny story, when I turned 18 the summer of 1975, I brought my best friend to the Flowage on my first vacation without my parents. We camped for two weeks at Lake Chippewa campground right on the shoreline. We spent two weeks drinking and pounding the lake with only one follow to show for it. The Friday evening before we were to leave for home, we had the boat out of the water and we were sitting around the campfire watching the sun set reflect on Flemings Bar and here comes Wayne drifting along the shoreline casting right in front of our campsite. Just as he is in front of us, he catches a musky!
I'll never forget that moment! |
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| He was definitely a man of few words when I met him, but an incredibly intelligent fisherman. I had the privilege of my first guided experience being with Wayne Gutsch. We all were throwing the same lure, he was in the back of the boat, and he caught all 3 muskies that were netted that morning. haha! |
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| We used to hit "happy hour" at Herman's landing with Wayne------ sorry to hear of his passing----Jobu |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Same here. He was a very good muskie fisherman, and a truly interesting person. |
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Location: Nielsen's Fly-In Lodge, on Rowan Lake | Never knew the man but if he was a Muskie fisherman he will always be on the BIG fish waters forever now prayers for the family |
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| As a bait maker, a creative tinker, and thinker, who tested his and other's ideas, and getting a couple or three, very right, including an elegant creeper, a bucktail design that ruled the flowage and other dark water lakes for years, and his magnification of the mudpuppy into the Tallywhacker, a neccessity for every musky tacklebox.
As a caster, smooth as silk.
As a musky fisherman, Wayne was "all in", and probably loved the fishing, and the Flowage, more than he should have.
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| I met Wayne one nite at Hermans Landing (colorful to say the least) We talked smart for an hour or two. We had 3days on the water with no fish,Wayne gave us some tips and day 4 we got on some fish. My kind of guy sorry to hear of his passing. |
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Location: Seymour, WI | The Tally Wacker that I have has better sound and action than any other surface bait in my box, love throwing it. |
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