John Hageman

At the end of March, the annual walleye runs in Ohio’s Sandusky and Maumee rivers were gaining momentum with anglers scoring some catches on each stream.
Paying close attention is Mike Wilkerson, fisheries management supervisor for the Division of Wildlife in Findlay, who will direct his staff to collect eggs for the state fish hatcheries to use for saugeye production for stocking inland lakes and reservoirs. 

Once that all danger of their fishing lines or themselves being swept away by chunks of ice and tree limbs drifting downriver, anglers began wading into or walking the shorelines of Western Basin rivers seeking walleyes.
The primary pair of rivers in Lake Erie that support robust spawning runs of first walleyes, and then white bass, are the Sandusky and Maumee rivers in Ohio. Certain sections of these rivers have the correct combination of depth, flow rates, and preferred rocky habitat used by these species to broadcast their eggs over.