Ready 2 Tackle / Todd Robbins

10/24/2025

Seeing lots of questions and conversations about the fall walleye bite on the Detroit River lately. So I'll throw My 2 cents out there. And maybe help answer some of them questions and steer anyone in the right direction if not familiar.

I did this segment 14 years ago this week with Michigan out of Doors. (Jordan put this together for me as a loop to play at the fishing shows and sorry it's just a music over as he can't send the original at the moment). But all still applies.

I concentrate most of my walleye efforts in the southern half of the river. This was shot at the #1 bouy (you will see in the background)..N.E of Celeron and S of Sugar.

I have the same hard core passion for hunting as I do for fishing, so this time of year it's very hard for me to decide which to do. But during those Indian summer stretches of days in the 60-'s & even 70's when it's to warm for me to want to hunt I'll fish. I want to say the water temp was 63 on this day, and by afternoon when we came back to the house to have a fish fry we were wearing shorts.

The sign I look for is when the perch move in. And for 2 weeks leading up to that recording we were catching lots of good perch between 10-14". When the perch move in the predators follow. Guys in the lake had been catching perch for sometime, but it's when they move to the mouth of the river is what I'm looking for. We were fishing in that little cut 12' deep in between the w**d beds making only 150-200 yard drifts. As well as the West side of sugar island from the island all the way down. Most of that is in the 13-15' range. And also started drift at N.E. top of Celeron going towards that #1 bouy. They crush the jig at this time of year making it so much more fun in that shallower water. We had a heck of a time netting those fish cause we had 5 of us in my small boat at the time. The biggest fish I released was over 8 #'s with all sizes mixed in. Even though this video is short the few hours we were out there it was like this the whole time.

Everything is still the same now as it was then. And FYI everywhere in the background you can go catch great perch right now. Airport Bay, Cross d**e, Ford Yacht Club & all around Celeron. I'll fish as shallow as 4' for perch, most of the time you can watch them swim into and around the boat.

Could go on and on but that is the gist of it from my perspective. Jordan had told me after this aired it had the most interest and comments of any episode in a long time, because most people weren't aware that the walleye fishing is that good in fall.

Good Fishing
Todd

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09/08/2025

Since the lions are sucking let's look at some fresh new jig colors that have been requested by some customers. Downloading to the Web site now.
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10/21/2024

The grandson Cheez'n with his Ready2Tackle hat. I bet he's thinking... "I can't wait to go fishing with poppa Todd" 😁 💙

04/07/2024

Well the new boat works !! HAHA .. Maiden voyage yesterday, couple of electronic things need to be taken care of but overall super day. Joined by Joe Damron Kevin N Spano got our limit of eyeballs. I know you seen one you seen then all but different meaning in a new boat and good friends to share it with. Joe caught biggest 27 1/2 " went back saving that one for this weekends tournament.

03/09/2024

Couple of OG's and down right nicest guys in the industry. Stopping in to say hey Mark Martin & Joe Thomas, while we are here in Grand Rapids.

03/05/2024

Busy Busy Busy and then Busy. Getting all things ready for Ultimate Sport Show Tour . We will be in booth 2060 and will have a bit of a new look and set up. From now on I'm doing corner booths for more room and better exposure. So had to tweak the set up and displays which I'm really excited about. As well as have added a lot more new Tackle on the Bass side of things. And last but not least after many requests Heather is adding some nice high quality shirts to the Ready2Tackle.com line up both men and women's. And they will soon be on the Web site. Few of the shirts in pics.

02/18/2024

This time of year is always the busiest if you are in the fishing business since open water season is near.
Keeping all your items stocked and in my case built/made up. With trade shows (& all that goes into that alone) on line orders and large orders for delivery to stores it can be overwhelming at times.
But I'm doing it cause I love fishing and helping others to catch more fish on their own and so they have a better understanding of those things that I've learned over all the years I've been doing it.
With making and branding my own stuff it really hits "home" when you get e mails, texts and comments on your products saying how they are very pleased with their purchase and the items are the best they've used and have helped them be successful. I'm so obliged to all the customers new & mostly all the repeat customers year after year.
This past week has been the best for Ready2Tackle.com for on-line orders since I started the business back in 2008.
This pic was just from yesterday's orders, may not seem like much to most but to me it is. What I find uniquely crazy and I'm honored is that since most of my Tackle is very much regional to the great lakes area the past 7 days I've had orders from 9 different states (and I don't mean just the surrounding states 🤪) like Oregon, New Mexico, Montana and Utah. Very humbling to me and that's what keeps me doing my side gig, hopefully it will turn full time in the future.
BTW I couldn't do it if it weren't for my son Zayne, he's the backbone to the biz !! Shout out to him as he's not on the book.

12/18/2023

Ready2Tackle.com will have a booth this year. First time in a long time !! Lots of new stuff and great tackle. Hoping to see lots of familiar faces.
If you buy your tickets on line before the 25th at ultimatesportshowtour.com and use promo code HOLIDAY you will get 50% off.

07/08/2023

Granddaughter Claire helping poppa Todd going out and getting the trail cam cards, going for a ride on the quad and then going through all the pics. And she wanted to wear one of the new Ready 2 Tackle hats 🥰