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The Sinbad’s walleye tournament is this weekend in the Detroit River (more info on walley-palooza here). We have received reports from several guides that they have been cancelling walleye jigging trips due to the horrible water conditions.  With the heavy rains and wind, the Detroit River is so muddy it seems that you could almost walk across it. With calmer winds on Friday, hopefully the water will clear up before the tournament start.  We have not received any reports of fish being taken in the last day or so, but there have been a very few guys out giving it a go.  Looks like decent weather for the weekend. Good luck to all the tournament fishermen.

Walleye Palooza 2011

9:00 pm Saturday, April 30, 2011
through
3:00 pm Sunday, May 1, 2011

Weigh-in at ‘Sindbad’s at the River’
Detroit, Michigan

Entry fee is $50.00 per angler. Limit of 4 anglers per boat. No substitutions.

• Blind Draw prize for best combined weight of the “Blind Draw” Team
• Limit of three fish per angler weighed for individual classes.
• Individual Class Prizes for 1^st through 3^rd based on the total individual weight.
• Big Fish Prize
• Prizes based on level of participation with 100% payout after Derby Expenses
• Weigh in to begin at 2:30 pm on Sunday, May 1st and ends promptly @ 4:30 pm.
• Boundaries for the Tournament will be from the North tip of Celeron Island in the
• Detroit River to a line running due East from the Fort Gratiot Light in Lake Huron.

Any walleye’s weighed will be donated for the Walleye Palooza Banquet at Sindbads Sohar room, which will immediately follow the weigh-in.

All left over walleye fillets after the banquet will be donated to the Gleaners Food Bank.

****************Youth Palooza Division****************

Entry fee is $10.00 per angler 16 years of age or younger

Single fish weigh-in for Youth division

Prizes based on Total Individual Weight with Length of biggest fish used as tie breaker

See rules for more information. Don’t forget to ask about the Calcutta Derby.

Click Here for Tournament Rules

Contact Information:
Joe Yonkoski jyonkoski@yahoo.com

(810) 335-1871

Click here for entry form

(586) 945-3008

We are starting to see some reports of walleye being caught in the Detroit River. We have couple reports coming from the St. Jean area of some walleye being taken on different colored jigheads tipped with minnows. The water temp. is still pretty cold, but the fish are there. We have also received several reports of walleye being taken in the Trenton Channel area. Most fish were coming in and around 20 feet of water on live minnows and Fin-S on chartreuse jigheads. Still not a lot of guys out there yet, so there is plenty of room if you can take the cold. Good luck.