Fishing
As glaciers sculpted northern Minnesota's landscape
10,000 years ago, they also carved some of the nation's
best fishing lakes. The frozen rock and ice formed
deep clear basins, now home to trout. Glacial sediments
filled other basins producing nutrient-rich lakes
with complex food webs which feed walleye, bass and
panfish. These fish, along with others are in turn
dinner for northern pike and muskie.
The Chippewa is at the headwaters of two major drainages:
The Mississippi River and Hudson Bay. Nineteen watersheds
lace the Forest with 400,000 acres of open water;
1,300 lakes including three of Minnesota's five largest,
923 miles of streams and over 400,000 acres of wetlands.
The combined acreage of lakes, streams and wetlands
represents half of the 1.6 million acres within the
Chippewa National Forest boundary. Enjoy Fishing on
the Chippewa!
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