Good spots near Mondovi WI

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UpperMi roughangler
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Good spots near Mondovi WI
<p>I will be down in the Mondovi area in Wisconsin late tomorrow and over the weekend. Just wondering if anyone knows any good spots to try to catch something cool. I probably won&#39;t have much time to fish but I thought I would ask anyway.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Just pm me if you know of any place good to fish in that area of WI.</p>
TonyS
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The buffalo river runs right
The buffalo river runs right there, I grew up duck hunting that river but rarely fished it. I don't know any specific spots near mondovi but there should be some access sound town. That river has potential for a range of species. The chippewa isn't far, if you have a little more time. Might be too high after the blast of rain we got, time willtell but downstream from eau clarie is some of the best rough fishing water in the state
UpperMi roughangler
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Chippewa River

My dad grew up on the Chippewa and he mentioned going there to fish. 

What tactics are good for that river? A bottom rig? give me some advice as to what to try.

TonyS
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Best bet is a bottom rig with
Best bet is a bottom rig with a #4 or 6 hook and a chunk of night crawler. That rig alone could catch you a couple dozen species, potentially. With the high water, fish any current seams or eddies you can find, sometimes the fish will be just a few feet off the bank. I'll pm some specific spots later. Tough from my phone
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Bottom rigging

Great advice from Tony S.  I would just add that with high water and the Chippewa realatively fast current, you will want to have a handful of heavy - 2,3,4 ounce sinkers to stay put.  Being able to use 3 rods in Wisconsin, I'd take full advantage of that as well.  Try bottom fishing crawlers all over the place - a small chunk near shore on a light rod, a big gob of crawlers out in deep fast water on a heavy rod, and  another rod in-between.

 

Good Luck!

TonyS
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Yep - what Andy suggests is o

Yep - what Andy suggests is often my go-to method, really at most water levels.  One rod with a light sinker in the slowest water (even only a foot deep at times), one with a 1-2oz sinker on a seam, and 2-3 oz in fastest water it will stick in.  That's assuming you've got three rods and the stuff to do that.  If not, focus on seams and slack areas, when it is this high there are always some fish (sometimes tons of fish) in those spots. 

UpperMi roughangler
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Snags

Is there much for snags in that river? Will a heavy slip sinker rig get hung up? That is usually the case up here.

 

Also, thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it.

TonyS
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The river bottom on the major

The river bottom on the majority of the lower Chip is sand or gravel (with some exceptions of rip-rap bank and much of the part in Eau Claire) so getting hung up on rocks isn't usually huge problem, though it happens occasionally.  There is a fair amount of drowned logs in the Chip, those you will get hung up on if you get too close - a heavy sinker can help avoid drifting into them though. 

UpperMi roughangler
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I did manage to fish a little

I did manage to fish a little on the Chippewa river on Saturday, but I had so little time that I didn't catch anything. I know I will be down there again sometime again, so hopefully next time.

 

On my way back, I stopped at Townline reservoir on 54 (if anyone knows where that is). I fished there a while but didn't know exactly where to fish. Again, my time was limited as I wanted to get home before midnight. It looked like a spot where I should have caught something, but I only used lures because I must have left my worms on the rim of the truck bed back in Eau Claire on the Chippewa and they fell off somewhere. So if anyone is driving on the East side of the Chippewa river in Eau Claire, keep an eye out for a small bucket with three containers of crawlers. There were also two slip sinkers in the bucket. If anyone just so happens to find them, put good use to them

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Next time I'm sure you'll sti

Next time I'm sure you'll stick something, it is a great river.  With the water so high this past weekend a lot spots might have been tough to fish, I hit it Monday afternoon before it dropped on my favorite high water stretch and did well but many other spots I checked were unfishable