Manistee River

The Detroit River and The St Clair River are both teeming with walleye in the spring time. The Detroit River starts things off being closer to Lake Erie the walleye factory of the world. The other reason is the water warms faster in the Detroit River because of all the shallow waters of Lake St Clair this also helps kick off the early spawning. The St Clair peeks a little bit later because the water feeding it out of Lake Huron is so cold.

My unique approach and commitment to my clientele is teaching you the refined art of slipping the current and vertical jigging. This is all about boat control and having the right equipment in hand to develop the feel of that light bite, or being more precise that extra weight of the walleye closing his mouth on your jig and responding with a hook set.

The river current is usually 5-9 miles per hour , we use this speed to cover holding water while maintaining boat control and periodic jig contact with the bottom. Eventually keying in on heavily concentrated walleye locations.

I was raised jigging walleye on Lake of The Woods in Canada so this is very natural to me and the boat control comes from 25 yrs Guiding the Big Manistee River for steelhead and salmon out of a 21ft jet sled.

You will be impressed with this walleye jigging, better than any where in the world!!!

Captain Doug Samsal

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