Fish caught on the West Fork of the Chippewa

The first picture is of my father who built a one room log cabin on the banks of the West Fork of the Chippewa river ( Upper Clam Lake) in the early 1920's. He is pictured here with a 32 pound musky taken from Upper Clam lake right below his cabin. The adjacent picture is of me at the age of 12 with some crappies that were so abundant in the spring time. The picture underneath is another picture of me at the age of 16 with a 8 1/4 pound 30 inch wall-eye taken near camp fire island on Upper Clam lake. I did not have a net in the canoe at the time so I had to tip the canoe on its side and swim the wall-eye into the canoe without tipping over. We froze the fish in our ice-house and several days later took its picture. The interesting part of the West Fork of the Chippewa river is that it flows south through Wisconsin and enters the Mississippi River and continues on south until it flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The rivers just 5 miles north of our cabin flow to the north to Lake Superior. We have canoed the Chippewa from its headquarters at Chippewa lake, some 6 miles upstream from our Upper Clam Lake home and have canoed some 12 miles down river from our lake home to the large Chippewa flowage where the river joins the East Fork of the Chippewa and continues its flow to the Mississippi. Some day, my dream is to canoe all the way to where the Chippewa enters the mighty Mississippi.