We are coming up the weekend of October 4th to fish for walleye in the Dtroit river and in lake St Clair. What methods do you prefer the best at this time of the year?
It is not hard to catch walleye in the Detroit River, if you just do your homework. Walleye don’t like sound or light, but they are voracious eaters. If you know those key things, you will have a step up on less informed anglers. As a general rule, walleye prefer to stay in deeper waters. For that reason, you are going to need to be sure you have enough weight on your line to sink your hook. You will also need jigs with some color, so the walleye can see them and a jig that doesn’t twist or swivel much. Another tip is to use your trolling motor, and go with the current, to help disguise the sound. Give the fish some time to get accustomed to seeing your jig there on the bottom. They will usually look at it for a while before they decide it is food and attempt to eat it. Once you feel that initial tug on your line, just reel slowly, and let the walleye attempt to swim away from your boat. Once it does that, it will hook itself, and you can reel it in. Walleye fishing in Detroit River is usually best in early spring, but you can catch them in the fall as well as the rest of the year too, you just have to change your approach a bit. The best way to catch walleye on the Detroit is to use trolling and vertical jigging. If the walleye are scattered, trolling will allow you to cover a wider area to find the fish you seek. Though vertical jigging is without doubt the best way to fish the Detroit during the spawn, during the fall months, you will have scattered walleye, and trolling will be your very best bet for bringing in a good catch. If you are fishing St Claire Lake, try night fishing! Especially when the water is clear, you are going to have success–especially if you scout out areas in the daytime, so you can determine where it is that the baitfish are hanging out. This will be the area you want to concentrate upon during the night when it is harder to see the baitfish.
