3" Magnum Report Detroit River

Rich with a nice walleye

Over the weekend my uncle  came down to try out some Detroit river spring walleye action. We met up after work on Friday and hit the Trenton channel for the afternoon  strike and picked up a couple fish, one was in 13 fow on the drop off at north end of humbug island and one was in 9 fow on the glass house drift. We also had a couple fish lost at the side of the boat and a lot of short strikes. Saturday started at the same area and found lots of disappointed fishermen, so we worked our way north to mud island and great lakes steel. Fished in all depths and only got a couple strikes along with everyone else. We didn't see a single fish landed in those areas so we headed up to Bellanger park and finally found some fish. We drifted in 46 fow at the mouth of the Rouge River and picked up 2 nice fish and lost a few as well. All in all we had a great time fishing and I got to show my uncle how we do it Detroit River style. By the way my big fish was 28" and 8lb-12oz. Not bad.


-Rich

Earl with his first walleye of the year

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

Detroit River Walleye "3- magnum report"



9.1 pound Detroit River 10/10/11 

Monday October 10th:
Michigan State Trooper Mark Miller took a few hours off from chasing the bad guys to head out to the Detroit River to try for some fall eyes and landed this 9.1 lb lunker.
He was fishing with our friend Don Ferguson in his new sea nymph drifting with chartreuse hogs and crawlers in 8 fow.
Don't forget about the annual frog migration to the lakes where you should have great night fishing from the shore casting bright colored bombers, reflective and glow as the Walleyes wait in the shallows for unsuspecting frogs. Try rocky areas and be quiet, the fish will be very close to shore and will spook easily. You should catch a limit of hogs.

-Rich

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Went out this morning to the Trenton Channel and picked up 2 walleyes on chartreuse in 15-18 fow. These were dons 1st walleyes ever and he is on top of the world. Yesterday his son Cody got his 1st ever walleye. It makes me happy to put people over fish and see them smile like that.

-Rich

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This morning Cody and I went to the Trenton Channel and got 1 nice male for the freezer and quite a few lite hits and lost 1 hogg that broke Cody's line. This afternoon I went back out by myself and got 1 more nice male and lost 5 half way up to the boat. This was very disappointing to me and I almost threw my pole in the water. All 5 lost fish were within about an hours time. The fish were in deeper water today and had little action with chartreuse and found the magic color of the day to be orange. Hand liners were filling their boats up today and the Bliz and Kieth had there limit within 2 hours this morning pulling fire tiger baits. The water in the entire river is muddy due to heavy rains all week but the fish don't seem to mind. I will have a boat load tomorrow morning and see what the river will give us.

-Rich

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Detroit River 4-4-09

We made the trip down to try out the walleye fishing on the Detroit River and had a great time. We launched out of the Erie Metro Park and head up river and fished around the Trenton Channel. Overall the weather was good, but he west wind made drifting difficult. Jigging with bright colors (Yellow / White) and Berkly Gulp 3-inch Shaky Shad were the ticket.