LAKE WISSOTA, Wis. (WEAU) - After a cancellation in 2024 due to poor conditions, the Jig’s Up ice fishing event returns to Lake Wissota. “We are very happy to be back on the ice,” said UW-Eau Claire ...

LAKE WISSOTA — The 10th Annual Jig’s Up ice fishing competition took place Saturday on Lake Wissota. A couple thousand people turned out to fish and compete for numerous prizes. University of ...

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - Anglers hit the ice Saturday morning into the afternoon for the Jig’s Up ice fishing competition on Lake Wissota. Every year UW-Eau Claire partners with the Lake Wissota ...

Old newspaper clippings included in Lake Wissota: The Dam Story, a book released this summer by the Chippewa County Historical Society, details efforts to spread the word on the resource, once ...

“Developers Charles Kelsey and Joseph Brewer, owners of Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Co., began planning a dam across the Chippewa River in 1914, according to ‘Lake Wissota: The Dam Story,’ a ...

LAKE WISSOTA — The 10th Annual Jig’s Up ice fishing competition took place Saturday on Lake Wissota. A couple thousand people turned out to fish and compete for numerous prizes. University of ...