Maumee River report. 9 march 2026

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SUNRISE/ FIRST CAST-7:56 AM

SUNSET/ LAST CAST-7:34 PM

WEIGHT: 3/4 oz – 1 oz

BLUEGRASS ISLAND:   Crossing is permitted

COLORS: Brighter colors the last two days.  Glow head/ and glow tail.  Orange head/ firetiger tail.  Green head/ Xmas lights tail. 

Not a whole lot of fish caught yesterday, the rising water and wind made it a little difficult. Plus it’s still early in the run, basically yesterday was day one.  So if you weren’t able to make it down this weekend don’t feel bad you didn’t miss much.

Ay! Listen up!

“The Pause”- You cast out into the river and the bait is bouncing along the bottom ,  then there is a pause ….and then its keeps bouncing along. That pause was the fish , and you missed him.

 PAUSE =SET THE HOOK

BE AGGRESSIVE WITH THE HOOK SETS

Hooksets are free: It never hurts to presume that any odd resistance is a fish.

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