Monday Memories: Hooking future fishermen with freshly caught walleye

It took Steve Welch only 90 minutes to hook a big one in the Maumee River during the 2005 Walleye run. It was his first time out that season, and he had plenty of company, standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the cold water, bracing against the wind. “It was a madhouse over the weekend,” Gary Lowry at Maumee Tackle, told The Blade.