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Freshwater Fishing Museum


8/24/2011	Our location - Hayward, WI Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame & Museum
Hayward is called the Musky Capital of the World as the record Muskellunge fish have been caught in the Hayward area. The mounted record Muskies used to hang in a couple of the local bars. In the 1960's, the idea of a Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame was started. Funds collections started in the early 1970's and resulted in the building of the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame & Museum in Hayward. The centerpiece of the museum if a half-city block long, four and one-half story high sculpture of a Musky.
	This is the Musky sculpture. You climb a set of steps to get to the month of the Musky. The walls inside hold memorabilia of fisherman of the past.

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	Sculptures of other fish are found around the grounds of the Museum.
	Views of the Namekagon River
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	A view from the month of a Musky.
	The museum buildings have hundreds of old outboard motors, thousand of old fishing lures, old boats and hundreds of plaques denoting people who contributed to freshwater fishing.
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	The stairway down with the wall showing contributors.
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