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Wisconsin›Sawyer County›Chippewa Lake

Chippewa Lake

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Chippewa LakeSawyer County, WI

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Water temperature

Chippewa Lake water temperature today

Modeled surface-temperature estimate built from seasonal climate, lake depth, and live National Weather Service air temperatures near this lake.

74°FWarm

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Comfortable summer pattern. Bass and panfish are active; early and late hours beat the midday heat.

Warmest monthAugust · ~74°F
Freezing surfaceDecember – March
Model depth inputDepth unknown
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Estimates are modeled, not measured. Actual temperatures vary with depth, wind mixing, and recent weather — verify conditions before swimming, boating, or heading onto ice.

Wisconsin DNR fisheries survey

Fish population survey

Structured LakeList extraction from the 2024 DNR fisheries survey. Population estimates, density, and catch-rate indices use different units, methods, and scopes, so each value is presented in its original form rather than normalized against a different measure.

Source PDF
Adult walleye estimateNot reportedPopulation model unavailable
Walleye densityNot reportedManagement target unavailable
Species indexed819 extracted survey metrics
Survey indicatorsValues keep their source unit and method; unlike measures are not scaled or compared.
Management contextEast-side-only 2024 Lake Chippewa/Chippewa Flowage snapshot. All metrics retain that spatial scope and their netting/electrofishing gear scope.

DNR documented abundant black crappie, moderate muskellunge catch, incidental walleye/pike samples, relatively abundant smallmouth bass and moderate bluegill abundance on the east side.

  • The exact source title identifies Lake Chippewa as the Chippewa Flowage; the LakeList target is the exact queued Chippewa Lake UUID and has no WBIC.
  • Every metric remains east-side-only; none is represented as a whole-flowage population estimate.
  • Ambiguous OCR-only size labels are excluded, and incidental walleye/pike CPUE is not interpreted as abundance.

Black crappie

26 fish at least 5 inches/net-nightCPUE for fish at least 5 inches · p. 298 percentShare at least 8 inches · p. 222 percentShare at least 10 inches · p. 2

Bluegill

5 percentShare over 8 inches · p. 6

Largemouth bass

0.6 fish at least 8 inches/mileCPUE for fish at least 8 inches · p. 343 percentShare at least 12 inches · p. 314 percentShare at least 15 inches · p. 3

Muskellunge

9 fishTotal captured · p. 42 fishFish over 40 inches · p. 4

Northern pike

5 fish at least 14 inches/net-nightIncidental CPUE for fish at least 14 inches · p. 222 percentShare at least 21 inches · p. 2

Smallmouth bass

23 fish at least 7 inches/mileCPUE for fish at least 7 inches · p. 334 percentShare at least 14 inches · p. 34 percentShare at least 17 inches · p. 3

Walleye

8 fish at least 10 inches/net-nightIncidental CPUE for fish at least 10 inches · p. 26 percentShare at least 20 inches · p. 2

Yellow perch

1.3 fish at least 5 inches/net-nightCPUE for fish at least 5 inches · p. 328 percentShare at least 8 inches · p. 38 percentShare at least 10 inches · p. 3
2024 Spring Fisheries Survey Summary: Lake Chippewa (Chippewa Flowage), Sawyer CountyMatched by exact queue uuid state county and source alias lake chippewa for target chippewa lake · WBICs · verified 2026-07-19Wisconsin DNR fisheries survey report; LakeList operator documented permission to leverage this report with source attribution.
Unknownsurface acres
Unknownmax depth feet
1public access points
45.9639, -91.1161latitude, longitude

Access

Public access points

Boat launchChippewa Lake Access45.90478, -91.29937Managed by TOWNSHIPTOWN OF HAYWARDRamp surface: Concrete PlankADA-accessible feature: NoVerified 2026-07-12
DNR verifiedDirectionsOfficial details

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Fishery

Notable species

Species data pending

Depth FAQ

How deep is Chippewa Lake?

No verified maximum depth is on record for Chippewa Lake yet, and no public depth map source is linked.

Is there a free depth map of Chippewa Lake?

Not yet. No public depth map source is linked for Chippewa Lake. LakeList adds converted DNR depth maps as new sources pass review.

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Where this lake data comes from

USGS GNIS Domestic Namesname, coordinates, county, source identifiers
LakeList record updated 2026-05-23