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Hayward Bait & Tackle

  • November 26, 2005
  • Rated 4 of 5 by MCJ graduate from German Valley, Illinois
Hayward Bait & Tackle

After we finished unpacking at our cabin, we headed for Hayward, WI. It was about 30 miles from our resort. We first went to Wal-Mart and purchased our 4-day licenses and then went to the Hayward Bait and Tackle Shop.

When you first walk in, you are overcome by the various angler’s fishing tackle, equipment, and apparel. You will see the walls full of bobbers, leaders, sinkers, lures, fish lines, etc. Then you will view the rod and reels. And lastly, you will notice the life vests, coats sweatshirts, etc., hanging on racks.

In the front of the store on the right side when you first walk in, you can buy various sizes of minnows or baby sucker fish. What you pay depends on their size. Most anglers are using the baby suckers for walleye fishing because they are bigger than the regular minnow and thus will attract the bigger walleye.

If you step down from where the minnow tanks are, you will be in an area where there are cement tanks for the various live bait. What I noticed was a lot of different sizes of sucker fish bait. Some muskie anglers like the bigger suckers-the 18-inch ones, but we bought the 12- to 13-inch ones. For this size, we paid $15 for 10 of them.

After purchasing our live bait, we had to buy what is called a quick-hit harness. It consists of a bobber and two treble hooks. The young woman working there told us how to hook the sucker fish bait to it. She told us to take the front hook and hook the sucker in the upper lip and take the back hook and place just in front of the top fin. For this tackle we paid $4.95 a piece.

When we purchased all our tackle and bait, we noticed the trophy fish hanging on the walls. We saw some muskies and a walleye on the wall. As we were amazed at their sizes, we left the store feeling confident we too would catch a muskie, even if it wasn’t a trophy.

I highly recommend this bait and tackle shop. I met the owner and two of his employees. All of these people are very kind and helpful. In addition, when we were there the owner honored his 10%-off Internet coupon on merchandise we bought. The phone number here is 715/634-2921.

From journal Last Anglers Standing

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