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July 3 - Rick Malechuk Fished
10p-12a, got 1 at Portafino's , and 2 at Hennepin, pencil plugs red/white
(2) and one ~4lbs on fl. orange , black spots
July 2 - Mark Schaller Went fishing
out of AuGres this morning with my Dad and daughter. We picked up a
2 man limit in about 3 hours. We were fishing in 39 feet of water
running 2 ounce bb's and crawler harnesses. Our hot color today was
copper blades and beads. Fish were right on the bottom. I
picked up 3 hand lining as well.
July 1 - Bob Clark
Wednesday - 2 man limit noon to 4pm, 24 fow out from Stoney pt.
, bottom bouncers with hanesses. All nice fish, 2 20+" and a
28.5" 6.6 pounder. Rest of the fish 16 to 18". Threw back 6 to 8
sub legal, and many sheepies. Best colors perch and pink w purple. Also 2
10+" perch
July 1 - Jerry Hinton, Bob Hinton
and Mike Pasik headed to the north end of the Amherstburg channel on
Wednesday afternoon. We jigged with 3/4 and 1 oz jigs and Wyandotte worms
in 31-34fow. We took a 3 man limit in about 3 hours of fishing. Mostly
14"-16" fish(no size limit in Canada) but a couple of
19"rs. Got wet but it was worth it. Great to spend time with my busy
son Bob and my adopted son Mike, LOL!
July 1 - Paul Doute June 27th
report for Saginaw Bay. Made a trip up to fish good old Saginaw Bay with
fellow DWF members Don Kwasny and Ed Kolle. We fished the Corriyan Reef
Area in 9 to 11ft of water working the top of Cabbage weeds. Ran 1/2oz
inlines with crawlers harnesses 8 to 10ft behind inline boards. We made
short work of a 3 man limit of walleye. A good time was had by all! Purple
and Gold 6mm beads with gold blade was the best producing harness. Capt.
Paul
June 30 - Greg Warsow
Charter today (June 27). Fished from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. Fished Bell Buoy
& the Magic Triangle, Ohio side. Used 1 oz inlines w/nightcrawlers 40
to 60 feet back. We were able to take 24 for the day with one being
27" at 6.5 lbs.
June 29 - Bob Piette 7/26
Worked the American side of Ballards reef on channel edge, 7 eye's up to 3
lbs. BB'S and harnesses, black blade-chartreuse beads
June 28 - Rick Malechuk Fished
last night 11p-1a, main channel banks north and south of Grassy . nothing
north, south got 3 eaters, 1 throwback and lost 1, all on pencil
plugs 30ft. lead , red head white body black spots , nothing ar Hennepin
,rain started at 1am, some weeds but manageable.
June 28 - Mark Schaller Went back
over to the Amherstburg Channel Saturday (6/27), picked up another limit
and released seven. One fish was 17 inches long, the other 12 were
all 15 inch "cookie cutter" walleyes. Water temp was 71
degrees and clear except for the weeds. One minute the river would
be clear and before you knew it you would need a bush hog to get through
all the weeds and mayfly casings. Go to the link for a picture of
the spoons I used, the one on the left caught the majority of the fish the
last two trips.
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June 27 - Sid Van Houten Tried
Banana Dyke off the shed for a bit. Not marking or catching. Moved
to bell buoy. Marking lots of fish. Two small ones on bb.
Chatted w/a hand liner who had three using flatfish. I get out
the reel and ff and pick up 5 nice eyes and a couple more small ones and a
nice small mouth in about an hour. Tip w/a piece of crawler. Thanks
to the fellow fisherman for the hot tip.
June 27 - Rick
Malechuk Thursday night , wire-line, after storms, surface
clean started at 0830 , worked 5 spots, Mud down to Hennepin pt, ,
not a hit till 10:20 , ended up with 2, one at Hennepen, one north of mud
, both on pencil plugs, red-white-black spots, both ~20ft deep ,quit
at 10:45
June 26 - Mike
Barkley Went out with Tom Dinneweth and Jim Navyac Took
most of the day but we ended up with a 3 man Canadian Limit at Holiday Beach. Ranged
from 19 to 29' with crawlers/1oz inline weights various lengths back (20
30, 49') Pink pantie and any blades with pink were the hot color
today. Beautiful day on the water with friends!!!!!
June 24 - Greg Warsow Set out for
Holiday Beach this morning with Burt Parker & friend Dan. Lots
of bugs & very hot. Started out with a bang with 3 nice fish but
took until 12:30 pm for another 4. Nightcrawler harness with 1 oz
inlines, 1.0 to 1.5 mph, 20 to 26 fow. Ran across to Estral Beach and took
the another 8 same way but started in 26 fow with an east to west troll.
A lot of weeds.
June 24 - Jerry Hinton and Mike
Pasik got to Holiday Beach about 4:30 this afternoon and had our 2 man
limit by 6:15 pm. Meat and in-lines took all of the fish. Some were
running smaller but we had 4 over 20". Pink Panties and Chartreuse
Thunderbolt was best blades 35-43 foot back at 1.5-1.7 mph. Started in 24'
and trolled into to 21'. We were the only boat there last night.
June 24 - Rick Malechuck Bum Back
has kept me off river till last Wed, fished most nights since then,
Getting 3-5 each night, fishing 8p-10:30p, moving around to avoid floating
fish fly shells-weeds, by Mud and side of Fighting, banks below and above
Grassy , main channel side, nice fish 2-4lbs,redwhite pencil plugs
15&30 ft leads ,some before dark on chart,. spoon ,red herring bone,
and size 11 fire tiger husky rap. 1 1 muskie ~8lbs, released , drifted one
day 5p-7p,2 hours for 2 , split, drift rig, crawler, no one on river after
dark. Silver bass slowed when trolling, but took grand sons today and had
them troll, with kid-poles, on surface-shot & walleye spoon and they
caught them steady,
Owen 4, got his first fish!
June 21 - Ben Dascal Went out
on Saturday 6,20,09 6am, after rain
stopped, in 28 FOW between Monroe power plant and Fermi Power Plant and
picked up 9 big Walleyes. By 10am was done, weather had changed to very
high winds. Used Gold with Silver spoons. Fished on Sunday 6,21,09 8am, in 29
FOW between Monroe power plant and Fermi Power Plant and picked up 10
Walleyes. By 11:30am was done, weather was perfect for fishing . Used
Black with Silver spoons.
June 21 - Mark Schaller Went back
over to Amherstburg this morning to pull some wire. Started out at
the Hole-in-the-Wall where I picked up two. Moved upstream and
started fishing at the 74 bouy in 30 to 34 feet of water. By the
time I passed the 76 bouy I picked up the rest of my limit and threw back
7 more for a total of 13 walleyes. Most were just over 15 inches and
4 in the 11 to 14 inch range. Largest fish was 20 inches long.
First two fish cmae on a Riley Special spoon. The other 11 all
came on a #251 "Corn" Denny Spoon on the 20 foot lead. Best
part of the whole morning was only 5 Silver Bass. Fished from 7:00
am to 10:30 am. and surface temp was 68 degrees.
June 21 - Jerry Hinton along with
Mike and Chris Pasik celebrated Father's Day by fishing off Estral Beach.
This has become a tradition. 17-19 fow was best and it took only an hour
and a half to fill up. Meat and harnesses with 1 oz in-line weights back
17-22 foot did best. Colors were gold, chartreuse and pink. Many
sheepshead
along with the 'eyes but no bugs and NO WEEDS!!!!! Happy Fathers Day to
you all!!!!
June 14 - Mike
Barkley Fished the DWF tourn with Greg Warsow, Bob Clark
and John Lewandowski on Sunday and we got a 4 man limit plus at least a half
dozen almost legal throwbacks! South of the Banana dike, 15' of
water about 1.5mph. Ran harnesses on small boards. one side
with bottom bouncers, the other 1 oz in-line weights, 20' back/ Best
colors were anything perch and red beads, gold blade. Calm water and
beautiful day with friends!!!!
June 14 - Mark Schaller Went out handlining this morning with my daughter Alex
at the Amherstburg Channel. We started out at the Hole-in-the-Wall
where we picked up 2, released 2 and lost one. We drifted down to
the C.C.G. and picked up one more before we quit at 10:00 am. Water
was 62 degrees, stained and a few weeds floating on the surface. 4 fish
came on a black spoon and one on a #9 Blue Mackerel Rapala. Oh yeah,
one more thing......still a lot of Silver Bass over there.
June 14 - Ben Dascal Caught 5 nice size walleye on Sunday morning
6-14-09 in 29’ of water between Monroe power plant and Fermi. Also
3 on Friday 6-12-09 at 6pm Used Spoons, any color and any sized worked.
June 13 - John Hart Art and I went out again today, June 12th, (Same
place and pattern as posted below) and have to share this unbelievable day
with you all. I have been fishing over thirty years and have caught five
to ten muskie in all that time. Art and I had nine, that's correct NINE,
muskie on our lines. We caught 8 walleye and other fish but the muskie
fishing was unreal. Art caught two muskies within three minutes of each
other. I know if one of you was to tell me this story I would be thinking
to myself, guy must've been on some drugs, it's impossible to catch that
many muskie in one day much less a career of walleye fishing. It will
always be a memorable day to me with my good friend Art. Good fishing to
all and see you at the fish fry.
June 12 - Greg Warsow - Fished
Holiday Beach today with John Lewandowski & Gary Felker. Pulled
night crawler harnesses with 1oz inline weights & inline boards. 30 to
40 feet back. 1.0 to 1.6 mph in 18 to 23 fow. Slow day but was
able to land 9 Walters. Great day on the water.
June 11 - John Hart Went
out fishing with Art Yaccick today, buoy 84 and 81, and we got fifteen
walleyes, some smallies, some silver bass, some big gobies, and one huge
muskie. Weather was good till about the last hour when it started raining.
Caught most of them on red white a blue jig, go figure, and the good ole
Wyandotte worm.
June 10 - Jerry Hinton, Greg Warsow
and Tom Taylor headed for Holiday Beach this morning about 9:45 am. Done
by 1:00pm with 18 nice fish. Variety of sizes and even let go a couple
12" along the way. We were in 18-23fow about a mile east of the
beach. Harnesses and crawlers for all. The white perch are thick there and
went thru about 6-7 dozen worms. Very nice day!!!
June 7 - Kurt Nowicki Fished 6/6
out of Sterling State Park.. Out 7-8 miles 25-30 FOW, fished from 6 to
noon... 7 fish, crawlers and #11 Rapalas on boards 30-50 feet back, silver
& green/chartreuse caught all fish...
June 6 - Mike Barkley Went out with
Greg Warsow & John Lewandowski (the Odd Couple LOL!) Took most of the
day but we got 14. Started North of West Sister and worked our way
further North. Harness/1 oz. inline weights/small boards. Around 30
FOW, 50' back all different colors. Beautiful day with good friends
is always a winner!!!!! Thanks, Guys!!
June 6 - Mark Schaller Went out
handlining last night (6/5) in the Channel. Sue got 1 and I caught 2
(mine were bigger). We both caught a Rapala (again mine was
bigger)and a butt load of Silver Bass. During all of that we took a
break to watch the fireworks. Water temp was 60 degrees and the
weeds were starting to be a problem.
June 6 - John Sparkman Fri
6-5 Banana dyke limit in 2 hrs spoons Riley special (black, orange,
yellow, red). All fish in the 2-3 lbs range
June 4- Tom Lulko Handlining
the NW corner of Fighting Island, picked up 3 'eyes & about 12
silvers. #9 rapalas- firetiger & a blue/red. In 30'-32' of water. I
won't even tell you what my buddy Rick got.....
June 2 - Paul Jocks Fished
Holiday Beach 5/30 and 5/31 with limits both days. Started around
8:00 AM each day with 2 oz. bottom bouncers, crawler harnesses with #5 and
#6 blades and in-lines. White and purple colors worked the best.
Most caught in 22-24 FOW. They moved off the bottom late
morning and found them with mini-dipsy's, 60-80 ft back. One was 8.5
lbs, several in the 22-24" range, all quality fish, very few silvers
and no sheeps. Tried Hot n Tots and spoons with no takers other than
large silvers.
May 30 - Jerry Hinton and Mike
Pasik hit Holiday Beach this morning at about 7:30 and were done with a
2-man limit by 10:30 using in-line harnesses and meat. Most were 21'-35'
back in 14-21 fow.
May 30 - Carl Selz Fished
S/of the catamaran taking only one walleye about 3 1/2 lbs on a f-9
vampire pulling wire. Double headers on Silvers with milk shooting everywhere
including on me. Moved N/of the free bridge and the silvers did not
follow but no other walleyes. Still nice to be on the water.
May 30 - Tom Ebi The walleye are
off Stoney point in 24 to 27 f.o.w. Bouncers have only been
taking junk fish for us unless it's 3+ fter's. 20 to 45 back on 1oz
inlines at 1.2 to 1.5 mph has been working quite well. perch pattern,
silver and gold blades have been the best. if you run jets, #30 jets 35
back with harnesses. smaller than usual pods of fish so you have to keep
working them. lots of short fish and plenty of perch and white perch are
coming on harnesses.
May 28 - Doug Smith Wednesday
Stoney Point 3fy waves, muddy water. Not one bite! Bottom
Bouncer and worms. Tried everything. Fished from 3 to 9pm, 20-26
FOW. Waiting for better weather.
May 25 - Jeff Kelly Saturday
--- 25 foot of water off Stoney Point. 9 Walleye and 7 Perch. Purple
blades on harnesses, Rattle Tot's, and Stinger spoons.
May 24 - Bruce Snyder Report for
5-22 - Fished the Mid River, jigging. Weatherman was late about 4 hours on
the calm winds, its been a while since I have been bounced around that
much. All I caught were "silvers" until the wind died. Then the
wind died, found some fish north and by Fighting Island. Limited out on
eyes with a green jig head and Wyandotte worm working the best.
May 23 - Tom Lulko Got
3 'eyes down by Ballards reef, 22 ft of water, BB/crawler harness, lots of
smallies & a few silvers. water was like glass today, took my
brother-in-law Todd.
May 23 - Rick
Malechuk Just came in 1am. ,pulling wire , started 10:30,
NE wind and Wings game kept everyone in, fished NW side of Fighting Island
, got 3. On 5/21 got a limit, 10p-1am , most caught 11p-12a. On
5/20, 2 man limit, 7p-12a, but a couple at Hennepin & buoy -97 (north
east of Grassy Island) don't fish direct west of buoy 97 , lure
stealing cable ,been there decades ,all fish, all nights, except 2, caught
on 15 ft lead, red head, white body , black spots , night stalker,
the 2 on 30 ft lead ,orange pencil plug, most caught at 20-30ft , except
by Buoy 97 , shallow as 10 ft.
May 22 - Mark Schaller Dad came
down to visit so we went out to pull some wire last night (5/21). Same
area and tactics as Monday but different results. Silvers never
really shut down and we only caught 3 walleyes, two of which I released.
Still it was a nice night on the water.
May 22 - Rob Downham Went out
wed night. Wirelined around Calf island E-N-E sides. Picked up
6 nice fish. Hot lure was firetiger and white jointed Rapala #11
size.. Still some silvers, but next time out going to go to the lake
and try there. Good Fishing.
May 22 - Steve Schoonover Thursday
may 21st. straight out from sterling launch then drifted north to Stoney Pointe
20-25fow, harnesses any color, kept 6 all around 20-23" 2-3lb, threw
back 1/2 dozen just shy of 15", tons of silvers, 1 cat, some sheepshead
including a 9lb'er, and a half dozen nice perch. got all fish drifting
none trolling?
May 19 - Mark Schaller Went out
handlining last night (5/18) after the DWF meeting. I started at the 13/14
bouys at 10:00 pm and worked my way up the channel to McClouth. By the
time I reached McClouth it was 11:00 pm and I had 4 walleyes in the box
and only 6 Silver Bass. Fish came on #9 Firetiger and Blue/Silver. Water
temp was 56 degrees.
May 18 - Jeff Kelly Fished off of
Stoney Point in 24 to 25 foot of water with Dan Stockton on Friday.
Brought back 9 Walleye and 4 Perch, of which one Walleye was 7 pounds and
one of the Perch was 11 3/4 inches long. 6 walleye were thrown back along
with several Perch (to small). Fished with crawler harnesses and spoon
harnesses. Spoon harness (gold) took the big fish. #5 Colorado blade
(hammered-copper), magnum willow leaf blade (silver), and large size
chopper blade (silver-hammered) were the blades that were used.
May 18 - Ben Dascal Caught
one eye 5-16-09 & 5-17-09 on northeast corner of mud island with 1/2
oz green jig in 25'-32' of water, high winds made fishing difficult.
Silver bass not as many as Trenton. Also if fishing near or in Canadian
water, be careful, Canadian Police checking Fishing license. Two days
Saturday and Sunday, I saw them near the same spot giving tickets.
May 17 - Bruce Snyder Report
from Friday the 15th. I thought I had lost my jigging touch. But this time
out we took a 2 man limit of walleyes, and numerous smaller ones, from Mud
Island area up by and across from U.S. Steel. We took a couple of fish
from each area, including one male that went about 5lbs. I kept changing
colors, but a green jig with the brown worm worked the best.
May 13 - Will Heskett Dealt out
pain and destruction to the fishes Monday night and Tuesday night pullin
wire behind Mud Island out on the flats and into the deep water too.
Multiple limits, nice sizes. A few dinks here and there which were
released of course! Rob Downham, Dave Heskett and myself. #11 Clown b the
ticket :-)
May 13 - Mike Rozewicz Went
to Sterling state park splashed the boat at dock 7:30 to fish the lake
erie,started getting them shallow 18-19 ft.water[2],out front of
park.Moved north in the bay 18-19 ft.water[2].Ended up at stoney point
with 6 out deep 23-24 ft.water,bottom bounces an harnesses worked,with
erie dearies when with wind calmed down drifting.
May 13 - Rob Downham Myself
and Big Bill went out of Ecorse, fished around Mud island. We killed
them - Hot Lure, #11 Clown. Everybody seemed to be doing
good! Good fishing, Rob...
May 5 - John Sparkman Out
last night, 5-4, got 10 limit by 12.00 by the catamaran # 11 & 13
clown
May 4 - Eric Bishop Fished
Sunday from rock piles down to Mud Island, and caught about 15 eyes only 8
keepers fish were very scattered, two here two there. Minnows and
chartreuse lead heads were working, but white bass took their toll on the
minnow supply. Four of the fish were in the 6 lbs. range
May 3 - Bill Berwick Me and Johnny
B Good fishing Canadian waters in the river on Sunday morning. Got a
limit jigging and a large number of smaller walleye. Future looks
good. Black plastic out produced any other color.
May 3 - Rob Downham Me and partner
Big Will went out from Trenton. Pulled wire at and around the
catamaran and picked up ten nice fish. Hot lures, #11 Clown and
Firetiger. Right after dark, silvers ease up and the Eyes pick up
(Ha!).
Good Luck to everyone!! See ya on the river.
April 30 -Mark Schaller Got
an invite from Jerry Hinton to go pull some wire tonight with he and Greg
Warsow. Jerry pretty much drove the boat and let Greg and I fish.
We ended up with 10 and lost 2 all around the catamaran. Hot
lure tonight was a #9 Orange/Gold Rapala. Water was dirty but the
fish were cooperating. Even the silvers left us alone once it got
dark.
April 24 - Greg Warsow - Friday I
fished with Bob Frank & Gary Felker out of Wyandotte. Windy all
day. Picked up small one in front of Fighting Island. Picked
up the second one on the West side of Fighting Island. Jigging wih
Chartreuse & White with live minnow only. Wind blew us off the
water at 1:00 pm. Slow day and wet getting in.
April 23 -Greg Warsow
- Thursday I fished with Mike Pasik. Jigged on the East side of Grosse
Isle. Charteuse Jig with live minnow seemed to be the ticket. Ended up
with 8 nice walleye. Then the wind started to blow from the south....Hard.
Good day!!
April 23 -Mark Schaller Took
my kids teacher out handlining tonight for a do-over from a trip back in
November. He got his first one and his first limit tonight. We
ended up with ten, all west of the Catamaran. 7 of the fish came on
a #11 Firetiger and 3 on a #7 Chartreuse Rap. I also lost 5 fish
otherwise we would have been done in under an hour. Water was a
little dirty abd 46.5 degrees. Awesome night !!!!
April 23 -Rich Malechuk Limit
w/ jig 3/4 oz. pumkinseed worm and bass assasin 5" green peppered
shad,fire tail north of mud,also 4 throw backs and unfortunately first
silver bass of the year.
April 20 -John Decker
Fished sat. 4/18 Trenton channel from warm wtr. discharge on down. three
of us using 5/8 and 3/4 jigs with green-chart. twisters and black-chart.
twisters. took fish as shallow as 8 ft and out to 20 ft. landed 5 , had 2
come off half way up. was not using stingers. were using minnows with
plastics. clarity was about 1 and half ft. wish we had this kind of wally
fishery on this side of state! set da hook
April 19 -Rich Malechuk 2
of us got 6 Friday, by Mud Isle, red-shad & pumpkinseed 5" aqua
glo worms. 10-11:30AM ,had fished 8-10 am by Fort Wayne , no hits, many
snags
On sat. got 3 all on pumpkinseed, lsst one on bass assassin
,chart/peppered shad
All fish 2.5 lb males. Tried by Fighting also, still dirty. Alone, Tried
handling 9P-11P, 4 spots , Wyandotte to Rouge River, no hits
April 19 -Ernie Lange Fished
Saturday April 18 in Trenton Channel only managed one losing two more next
to boat. Went up river and caught 6 more including a 30 incher infront of
BASF in Wyandotte. Then came the wind AGAIN!
April 18 -Mark Schaller Went
out handlining 4/17 down in the channel. Didn't get my first fish until
9:30 pm and got the last one around 11:00 pm. Ended up with 3 and lost
one, all males. Caught them on DT-158 and DT Rainbow Trout in size #11.
Went out jigging with Mike Pasik and Danny Bloxsom Saturday morning and
the only fish caught was a beautiful brown sucker that Mike had the good
fortune of hooking up with. Started out on the East side of Celeron and
then tried up by the pack of boats on the East side of Grosse Isle. Saw a
few fish caught but not by us.
Went out tonight on my boat with a Mike Barkley up to Fighting Island
and we caught 4 on a 3/4 ounce jig and a brown worm. The 3 keepers were
all females, two spawned out and one with eggs. The fourth was a 10 incher
I snagged and let go. Water was a little dirty but not bad and the temp
was 46 degrees.
April 17 -Dave Harrison
One 19 inch male walleye at steel mill on the D river, lead jig with
wyandotte worm, around 1 hour of fishing and had to go...lots of traffic,
only seen one other one netted. Thursday at 5:30pm, light winds.
April 16 -Damien Tatomer
Trenton channel got 3 on jigs 2 on black and one on motor oil tipped
with minnow 2 where 4lb females spawned out 1 was 3lb male
April 15 -John Decker
Fished Trenton channel on 4/9 '4/10' and4/11. Landed 7 Thur, 7
Fri,only 2 on fri.3 of us fishing plastic and minnows. wind picked up on
Friday out of NE making boat control tuff. on sat. wind was still blowing
and water was dirty. only landed one by 1:00 on sat. switched over to
pulling cranks as handliners were doing better than jiggers. caught 1 on
blu-silver rouge. thinking about heading back down this weekend-Fri or
Sat. if wind dies or switches from NE looking for recent update on river
cond. thanks. set da hook!
April 12 -John Sparkman April
11 Out at 8 AM W/ Mark Schaller got 6 worked hard for em, lost one. Wind
was a pain.
April 11 -Ernest
Lange Fished the Trenton Channel this morning April 11,
didn't have a bite. Wind was blowing quite hard, difficult to control
boat. Didn't have a single bite. About 200 boats in channel and never seen
a single fish raised. Put the boat back on the trailer about 11am to go
home and wash the scum off of it.
April 11 -Bill Mezuk April
9 Fished with Brian Woodard, left out of Wyandotte in
the morning. Joined the drift down by the 80" Mill with about 100 of
our closest friends, and took one walleye. After a couple more drifts we
headed towards downtown. Caught 3 more in front of the Ren Cen and Joe
Louis Arena on various size jigs up to 3/4 oz. and different Fin-S minnows
(black w/gold flakes, Arkansas Shiner. Lots of snags near Ren Cen. Caught
all males, one was just under four pounds. 28-35 ft. of water. Water temp.
avg. about 42.
April 9 -Steve Schoonover Friday,
fished Trenton channel from 4:30 till 8:30pm, got 2 6lb suckers, 1 15lb
carp, 2 male walleyes 3lb, lots of wind, most other boats had only 1-2
fish per boat. Lighthouse reports it was busy all week
April 9 -Mark Schaller Went
out this morning with a friend of mine to trying jigging in the Trenton
Channel. We ended up with 2 and lost one. Water temps still
around 40-41 degrees. NE wind was a pain, water clarity was good.
Boats using minnows seemed to be doing the best. Saw Mike
Pasik out there and he had 2 and was calling it quits for the day.
Also saw Lance Valentine's boat out there and saw his group netted a
few. Got that jigging stuff out of my system for the year, now it's
time for me to go pull wire.
April 9 -Steve Schoonover 4-9,
fished Trenton Channel from 9am until 4pm, 6 fish 2 females (SPAWNED OUT)
4 males, all in the 21"-24" range, 5/8oz purple aspirin jig with
sickle hook, all but one caught on stinger.
April 9 -John Sparkman Today
by stacks and in front of humbug 10 limit #11 & 13 clown and orange
and gold
April 8 -Jerry Hinton
Bob Hinton, Mike Pasik and Tom Taylor fished the Trenton channel today and
took 9. Most came on 3/4 and 1 oz jigs with minnows and most came on the
stinger. We did get some bigger fish lower in channels at the southern end
of Humbug Island. only a couple came in the flats. Wind was huge factor
today. Tried the Horseshow for perch, nada today???
April 8 - Andrew Olsen Fished
4/7 from 1pm -7pm on the flats just south of the warm water discharge -
caught 8 (7 - 21-26" 1 - 16") on 3/4 & 1 oz jig with minnow
- orange and yellow. Very windy and cold - kept inline with the breakwall
of the plant and held in 4-9' of water, temp around 41.5. Fished 4/8
from 9am - 2pm along the wall from the stacks south into the flats.
Caught 8 - 1 in the flats, 7 - right at mouth of stacks discharge -
same jig set-up, but kept close to the shoreline (4-8' depth - temp about
50.5). Didn't see many fish being caught in flats, but a couple
other boats followed our lead and were also getting fish. 2 of us in
boat both days. Good luck.
April 5 - Rick Malechuk
9am-12pm , got 2 north of mud , 2 on west side of Fighting
Island and
1 south of mud . Silver -black spec Bass Assassin, Perch Fin-S, all males,
1.5-2.5lbs.20-30 ft,3/4 oz. jig
April 5 -Mark Surowiec 4-4-09
Thanks lance v. After watching Det river DVD did some scouting , found
fish off wall in front of Cene park and Ren Cen. Fun day with bball
hoopla.3/4 blk knuckle ball jigs from Bottomline b&t. 4 fish
2-26" 2-23"' Homeboy & Double D aboard the Reel Slo.
no plastic live bait & stinger.
April 5 - Ben Dascal Went
out at 1 pm on 4-5-06 and caught one big Female walleye 27" south
side of Mud island in 22' of water jigging. Used 5/8 jig head
"orange" with 3" fake minnow attached. Caught two more and
lost them at boat. Yes, toke picture and released her. :o)
April 3 - Bob Jones Thursday
- There were 4 guys in our boat, and we caught 15, the biggest of which
was 6.2. Some were tight with eggs still. All caught in Trenton channel.
Caught 4 in the morning then 9 between 1-4pm. No particular color was
out-performing another for us. Warmest water was 43.5.
April 3 - John Oblak 2
Rocks, 18 fow, chart jig, brown worm. Water temp43. 2 big Hens w/one
10+ lbs 4-2-09
April 3 - Phil Drum
Fished with Art Yaccick & John Hart caught 6 eyes all males . 5
by Mud Island & 1 by Great Lakes. Most were caught on plain jig
and Wyandotte worm. Weather was great!!!
April 2 - Bob Daniels Thur.
fished Trenton channel with 50+ boat o-o for me. at the dock only one per
boat maybee. used minnnows and 3/8 jigs on wind water temp 42. Went
to Flat Rock. Walleye in real thick people were snagging them. will
try again sat.
April 2 - Brian Woodard Fished
mid river thursday 4/2-landed 6 lost 1 at boat. Water was stained, but
very fishable! purple jig black worm, plain lead jig and chart worm were
the producers today!
