Extreme Fishing Gets Good

The Lindberg Flash says walleye are almost jumping in the boat on the DR delta. Many reports are coming in from up and down the river of limits. Summer is finally here and the mayflies are gone. Many fish, especially walleye, just gorge themselves on these pupae. The fishing usually slows during this time, except for the silvers, so it's a good time to be fishing now that they're gone. Unless you're into extremes.

Extreme Fishing show host British actor Robson Green returns for yet another series of the show in which he travels the world screaming and swearing his head off as he reels in the fish. Today he is visiting Detroit and he's probably going to fish one of the hot spots on the river. Fighting Island, Mud Island, Sugar Island, pick any island and you should find some fish around. So which island does Robson pick? Zug Island!

He usually goes after an exotic fish, a toothy relative of piranha or a hammerhead shark or even octopus. What is he fishing for around Zug? His specialty is competing with local anglers using their fishing techniques. So let me guess, he'll be handlining for carp. Oops sorry handlining isn't fishing, my bad. We'll just have to wait and see what’s so exotic about fishing the old channel of the Rouge River. Probably the view.

What is it about the rest of the world and Detroit? Writers covering the Autoshow cover the desolation of the city, ESPN writes about how rundown and depressing the city is and then the show about what would happen if humans were wiped off the face of the earth; building unoccupied for 50 years, crumbling with trees and other things growing out of the cracks. Nothing about the sharp new cars or the new sporting venues we have and surely nothing about new neighborhoods going up around the city.

I made a call to Lockeman’e Hardware in Delray to find out the scoop. Dave said I should call Andy’s Bait and Tackle Shop who was contacted by the Friends of the Rouge River. This was becoming a tangled web and I found out that Delray resident Danny Newsome would be Green’s competition. The FOTR, http://www.therouge.org/, had contacted Mr. Green about fishing the Rouge and showing off how much the river has been cleaned up. It looks like this may turn positive after all. The program is only aired in the UK and should be available in September. Green’s web site is;

http://www.robsongreen.com/extreme-fishing/#

From a very reliable source I’m told that Zug Island wasn’t an island until 1888 when Mr. Zug let the River Rouge Improvement Company cut a small canal through the south section of his property to connect the Rouge River and the Detroit River more directly (this Short Cut Canal, as it came to be known, was enlarged in the early 1920s by Henry Ford to allow large ships to more easily navigate to and from his famous Ford Rouge Complex. Making it easier for Iron Warriors like Yash to build our country. Like sands thru the hour glass so are the changes on this river.