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I wrote this big fancy thing yesterday about fishing on the river, and then when I went to post it this morning, all I got was the title. If you have guessed already, it comes as no shock as to say computers just aren’t my bag. But I struggle on.
Went down to the river to fish near Perrysburg. Its not a bad drive of about 35 minutes. I took my 7′6″ St Croix Avid medium light rod, and one of my treasured Abu Garcia Tournament 2000’s, spooled with 10 lb Power Pro with a 6 lb Vanish FC leader. The leader was actually a carolina rigged floating jighead, chartruse in color. I was using chartruse and orange Northland twister tails on the hook. Its one of my favorite set-ups not only for drifting rivers with jigs for walleye, but also for tossing cranks for Steelhead and live bait rigging for walleye on the inland lakes.
A common question is why do I use a 10 lb main line, and then drop down to a smaller line for my leaders. The answer is that I want to use the biggest line I can get away with. The Power Pro offers little stretch, and there are two benefits from this. First I can feel the weight as it goes along the bottom of the river or the jig if I want to use a leadhead. Secondly, its about the hookset, with a flick of the wrist I can set the hook on any bite or feel that I might have.
I drop down to a smaller leader for a couple of good reasons also. If I was using a medium action rod, I might want to drop to an 8 lb leader, but because I use a medium light I use the 6 lb leads. Why? Because it is strong enough to land any fish, and just as important is if I get snagged in the rocks I can break off my leader without breaking my line.
ACTION REPORT
Action on the river is slow right now, in three hours I only caught one fish, and saw two others caught as well. In recent years this time of the season is usually prime river fishing. Global warming 
All the fish that were caught were the early males who enter the river first. With the warm weather and rains in the forecast it shouldn’t be long before the females come up with the rest of the males.
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