Walleye Mating Habits

[Wolverine]

On another thread...
The fishing is really slow right now. We desperately need rain to bring in more fish.

I've been fishing Maumee/Perrysburg for a number of years now, but really don't know much about walleyes.

So what do they do during times like this? Do they hang out around the mouth of the river until conditions are to their liking? And if so, are there areas there to fish? I read somewhere about an Edison plant, and some place called Oregon, are these fishable from shore or by wading?


Thanks

[CritterGitter]

Bob,

The walleye are looking to spawn in the warmer water on shallow, rocky areas. Warm spring rains cause the river to flow into the lake which instantly makes the river the source of the warmest available water where there is shallow rocky spawning grounds. If we do not get rains, eventually the walleye will just spawn on the rocks out in the bay and in some of the near shore areas around Port Clinton and Marblehead.

[wanderboy]

Bob,

The walleye are looking to spawn in the warmer water on shallow, rocky areas. Warm spring rains cause the river to flow into the lake which instantly makes the river the source of the warmest available water where there is shallow rocky spawning grounds. If we do not get rains, eventually the walleye will just spawn on the rocks out in the bay and in some of the near shore areas around Port Clinton and Marblehead.

hi,

so u saying if Maumee doesn't get any more rains to increase water level, walleye will just stage & spawn out at the bay area, not coming up to the river regardless water level? because few people told me that when it comes to the time, walleye will swim up regardless the water level to spawn in the river, but higher water level helps attacting the fish coming in faster, and can hold more fish.

[CritterGitter]

The geology of it all dictates that some fish will always swim up stream. However, more rain = more river flow = more fish attacted to make that run. I heard an inch of rain between tonight and tomorrow is expected for that area. If that happens, then there will certainly be another run of fish into the river.

[Redhunter1012]

The geology of it all dictates that some fish will always swim up stream. However, more rain = more river flow = more fish attacted to make that run. I heard an inch of rain between tonight and tomorrow is expected for that area. If that happens, then there will certainly be another run of fish into the river.

^^^BINGO^^^

More rain equals more fish. Yes, there will always be a trickle of "fresh" fish coming in. But when we get a push of water, we get a big push of fish. In a perfect year with perfect weather, we would get enough timely rain to keep the river fluctuating between 581'-584' above sea level, and the temperatures would stay on the cool side not allowing the water to get past 52-54 degrees, which is ideal to bring in a long lasting, steady flow of walleye instead of a couple surges of fish. Rarely does this happen. The last year I remember this was about 5-6 years ago we were getting good numbers of Walleye from around March 10th through the first 2 weeks of May.