HAYWARD – The sun shined through a thin cloud cover Sept. 21 and glistened off the dark water of the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. A puff of wind crinkled the surface. The air temperature was 68 ...

Muskie guide Ty Sennett of Hayward offers these strategies for fishing the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. * Try back bays where fresh weeds are coming up and the fish have spawned. River channels, too ...

When he was a kid growing up in Illinois, Ty Sennett spent six weeks every summer on the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. His parents vacationed there, and Sennett spent all the time he could on the ...

Musky hunters need all the help they can get in an effort to find and catch the elusive muskellunge. Results of a recent study of how muskellunge move about lakes and home ranges may be of interest to ...

When musky season opened May 26 in Wisconsin waters north of State Highway 10, a small but growing number of anglers tried to land a lunker with fly fishing equipment. "Fly fishing for big esocids - ...

The Chippewa Flowage is one of our most popular and productive local walleye fisheries. As a result, it’s a population we keep a very close eye on, with annual surveys and lots of data collection. The ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On October 20, 1949, Louis Spray set a world record for the largest muskie catch on a cold and foggy day in the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. The muskie weighed 69 pounds, 11 ...

HAYWARD, Wis. Boulder Junction is the "Musky Capital of the World." That's a registered trademark, so it must be true. Unless you're in the Hayward Lakes area, where they don't exactly say they're the ...