River Walleye

[BigBassin144]

The walleye run is on here in Toledo in the mighty muddy Maumee river. I usually don't go cause it gets to be a mad house down there.

But my friend and his roommates were planning on fishing this year so I picked up some walleye stuff and broke out my waders.

The first day I went was Good Friday, and man was it busy. Because pretty much everyone out there is there to catch food and not for the simple fun of the sport, there's not much courtesy. It gets to be really annoying when some guy keeps snagging your line, then cutting YOUR bait off to untangle everything, and then keeping your bait...

Anyways, the river was up and cold from snow melt over in Indiana and the days haven't been too warm here, so the fishing was still slow. My friend got one, I got skunked.

We went out Thursday as well. Was on the river by 7:30 and in the middle of the week it wasn't too busy. We were able to fish a good 12-15ft apart. My friend and myself each got one, his roommate didn't that day.

He went about 20"



My friend and his roommate went Friday after class, I didn't have my gear in my truck, so I didn't go. They both caught their limits (4 each) in about 6 hours on the river.

So when they said they were going back this morning, I decided I'd meet them down there. It was a brisk 33-34* when we met on the river at 6:45, which turned out to be 45 minutes too late as there were already people and boats where we wanted to fish. We got stuck in a bad spot casting between two boats right into some rocks. I broke off my whole rig (15lb braid and 10lb leader) instead of just my leader like three times...

My friend forgot his gloves and his fingers were numb in about half an hour. His roommate's wader sprung a leak and his was fishing with ice cold water up past his right knee. After about an hour and a half with no bites, lots of retying, and a wet leg, we decided that was enough of the weekend walleye run for us.

We were stuck between this guy:


and this guy: (and the calm water you see was quite shallow and rocky) He looks farther than he was; I could've casted into his boat.


Some people. Insert 1-2 more people between each one picture and you've got a busy day on the river during the walleye run.




I think we'll be sticking to fishing during the week when we don't have class or have class later in the day.

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