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| Any suggestions on where to stay if we decide to fish the Turtle Flameau Flowage?
Also, is fishing the Turtle Flambeau Flowage similar to fishing the Chippewa Flowage? Or are these two very different bodies of water...
Any suggestions would be helpful...
Terry Paulson |
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| You could call the Mercer chamber of commerce at (715) 476-2389.
They would have any resorts in the area.
I use to fish the Turtle years ago and have had my best success in the early fall. Summer was real tough. Bootails, twitching Slammers and topwater where best for us at that time of the season.Colors where Flo. orange with a balck tail or gold blade with yellow, gloden shiner or sucker colored Slammers and the topwater where black. The water has a nice brown stain to it so flo. and gold's seemed to work best. We mainly fished the shallow reefs and stump field's around the Baraboo lake area. Travel can be extremely difficult, it is not as easy to get around as the Chip. PLAN on hitting stumps and logs! |
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| On the Springstead side, there is Frontier Inn. Quite popular and a nice place to get a meal! I recommend the Ribeye steak.
Rob
www.gomuskiego.com[:praise:] |
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| I have never fished the Chip, but I would think that they are nothing alike. From what I see on the map, the Chip has tons of floating bogs and weeds. The TFF is lots of rocks, lots of floating timber, and lots of stumps. Very few weeds. Areas you have safely travelled through one day may not be safe the next. I have hit stumps where the map showed the main channel. Plenty of rocks and stumps that top out at about 3" - 6" below the surface of the water and are not shown on the map. Slow no wake is a must until you know the flowage. You will be fairly lucky if you don't hit a submerged stump or log at some point. But there is very little development and it is well worth the trip. |
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| Bill's advice was great. We fish the Turtle every spring, and we do fairly well. People always say that it is trophy water, but we always catch multiple Muskies every day. The least we have ever caught was one. And that was because we missed two others.
Windy - sunny days seem to be the best.
Scot |
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