MOTO Fishing Trip Highlights

MOTO Northern Wisconsin Fishing Trip

The recent fires in the Boundary Waters forced MOTO to cancel our planned trip to the wilderness. In leu of doing nothing we came up with Plan B. Our new plan was to fish a number of different lakes in the Northern Wisconsin area. The plan called to fish a variety for different type of lakes that would present different challenges.

Day one we ventured to Bearskin Lake which is a 400 acre that holds musky’s, walleyes and panfish. We found the lake to have a lot of green algae which didn’t help our search for fish. We did manage to bag several fish but no were near enough for a meal.

Day two we took off to the Willow Flowage which is a 5,000-acre flowage. The flowage has a variety of different structures; a number of islands and the Tomahawk River runs through the flowage. This was our biggest challenge with the flowage was the water level was down 8 feet. Virtually all of the structures were above the water and the only safe place to fish was in the river channel. It was a day of struggling to find fish, being safe and not a lot of action.

Day three and the pressure was on to catch fish. We planned to have two meals of fish and we didn’t have enough for one meal. Our lake of choice was Lake Tomahawk a 3,500-acre lake that held walleyes and good size panfish. The day started slow, but we finally sat on fish and caught more than enough for two meals.

Day four was our final day. We spent the day on Burrows Lake a small 150-acre lake with a lot of small panfish. Only kept a few fish, but we did finish our day and the trip with a 371/2-inch musky.

Our four-day trip provided true fishing guys a challenge, a time to enjoy and build a brotherhood and spend time in God’s word with daily devotions.