First Boat Trip for 2012

Detroit River Walleye

Finally, back on the water!! Fished with Captain Dwayne, his son could not make it today. Temperature this morning was 40 degrees with a south wind around 10 knots. As the day progressed the temp made it to the mid 40's and the wind picked up a little. We launched out of Wyandotte Marina where the wait was only about 15 minutes to launch the boat. We caught most of the fish in front of Mud Island and we caught the last one in front of the steel mill. The fish were caught in as little as 16 feet of water and as deep as 32 feet of water. Though the water was stained, the Captain said it was still good enough to jig and not use the hand lines. The best setup was a jig tipped with a black worm with a bright green tail. The Captain likes to cut off half of the green tail because it creates less tangles with the stinger hook. The bite was very tough today but we managed to keep 6 walleye.
P.S. to Doug B. - Thinking of you and hope you're doing better!