SUNRISE/ FIRST CAST- 6:59AM
SUNSET/ LAST CAST-6:31 PM
WEIGHT: 5/8 oz , 3/4 oz – water is still low, but the current has picked up a bit. A little extra weight may be needed to slow the drift down.
BLUEGRASS ISLAND: Crossing is permitted
The Maumee gets a bad rap for being over crowded during the spring walleye run. Yet year after year I see 5-6 miles of empty river , full of walleye by the way, and thousands of fishermen bunched up in one 1/4 mile area. Don’t complain, seems to be what you want.
Stop in and we can send you to some beautiful areas chock full of walleye , by yourself .
I don’t know the exact number , but more than a few of my hooksets are false, meaning no fish on the end of my rod. Might be rocks , logs , the guy down the lines waders , or whatever . Sometimes branches will make my rod feel like there’s a struggling fish on the end , but by God I set my hook into that branch and it aint getting away. You will hear this saying a lot “hooksets are free” . Whiff on a hookset ,you can always cast back out. With these light biting walleye if you are not aggressively setting the hook when there is that break in the rhythm of the bouncing weight , then you won’t hook into many walleye. Often times after the false hookset, as you are freeing up a snag, a fish will grab the bait.
Some anglers half ass their hook sets, which results in lost fish due to poor hook penetration in the mouth . I say lean into it and give it hell . Some of my best hook sets have been into logs. Sometimes the lures comes flying back at my face .
But if you put some UMPH into it when you do hook a fish- it’s sticks. And oh yea – occasionally sharpen your hook – it makes a difference.
Have fun be safe and good luck fishing
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