Detroit River Walleye

Detroit River Walleye hooked on plastic

3" Magnum Report - Detroit River

We went out to the Trenton channel Saturday for a while and found fishing to be mediocre in the morning with only 1 big male in the box and a few lost fish. Afternoon was super slow with just a few strikes. The water temp was 46 deg in the am and 47 deg in the pm. The weather change, pea soup fog and NE stiff winds that changed to South wind played a big factor in the slow fishing this weekend.  I talked to a few fishermen that did catch decent numbers and a lot of guys got skunked.

Sunday morning I went out to Ohio waters in lake Erie between Turtle Island and the Toledo light in 10 FOW and picked up a few fish on yellow and orange blade baits and lost a few as well in the chocolate milk colored water. The water temp was 53 deg and the SW wind made jigging difficult at times but I was catching fish. I did check out the dumping grounds out from Bolles Harbor and found clear water and lots of people caught limits out there. I will give that a shot next weekend.

- Rich

3" Magnum Report - Detroit River

Well, they went out again this morning and landed 17 Walleyes and lost 35 near Turtle Island. Nice job mark.

-Rich

3" magnum Report - Detroit River

These fish were caught near Turtle Island in southwest Lake Erie. All males staging near Maumee River for spawning, by the way they did have four people in the boat. I will be heading to this spot on Saturday morning to check out this hot action for myself. Good luck everyone its on!

- Rich

3" magnum Report - Detroit River

1/4 oz Tube Bait. 

This 1/4 oz tube bait caught a limit of walleyes in the Trenton Channel on Sunday.

-Rich

3" Magnum Report - Detroit River

It's on!
The annual circus we call the spring walleye run in the Trenton Chanel is here. Get your jigs and Wyandotte worms ready and get out there. The water is 43 degrees as of Sunday and getting warmer, the males are in and biting. As far as presentation I've spoke to a lot of anglers and they are biting on a lot of different things; yellow, purple, blue Orange jig heads tipped with Wyandotte worms with or without a minnows and 1/4 oz jig heads with yellow tube baits seem to be the most active presentations. I marked lots of fish over the weekend south of Trenton Edison in all depths of water. Use your extricate motor to keep a vertical jig and bounce it off bottom. There will be a ton of boats congregated in relatively small areas but don't let that stop you from jumping right in the mix, there are certain areas that are usually really active and us locals know exactly where they are so keep in mind that the conventional wisdom of just because there's boats there doesn't mean there's fish there does not apply. They are there, trust me.

I have also heard of lake Erie Ohio waters just off Turtle Island limits being caught on blade baits.

Good luck and happy fishing.

-Rich

Saginaw Bay

SAGINAW BAY

MARCH 16, 2012

 

The Hot Hunting Spots Crew hit the Saginaw Bay for some Walleye Action.  This year the ice is out early and the fishing action has been heating up to go along with these high tempratures.

 

We tried several techniques to get fish and found our most effective way was to drive around with the fish finder & side scan looking for fish in 10 - 18 foot of water near the state park area.  We did not fish dirty water near the mouth but instead headed out to clear water on the flats.

 

Once we spotted fish - we used the following SNEAK ATTACK.

We used the wind to move our boat, we slipped our anchor off the bow and we tied a loop for bottom and also a loop 3 foot up the line.  ( pulling the anchor only slightly off the bottom to move )

 

We then used minnows on Jigs to work slowly in the area.

 

After a few minutes, if we did not get strikes, we would lift the anchor to move quietly.

As the sonar picked up more fish, ( reading off the back of the boat ) we would slide our anchor back down quietly holding the bow. 

 

Prior to going into our Stealth Mode - we tried multiple techniques, including our favorite troll methods.  The fish were not responding to those methods:

 

We spoke with many others at the boat landing who were frustrated they could mark fish but not get them to bite.

 

All the fish we caught were heavy females - Wow what a fight!

 

But we needed to really slow down to entice these fish - We also noticed that even drifting, we did not get the same response from the fish.  We had to pretty much sit down on the fish before they would respond.

 

Hope that helps you on your next trip out to the Bay.

 

Douglas, Dennis, Mark, Nicholas & Chachi