iFish Lake St. Clair

A new bass tournament series will start this year on Lake St. Clair. It will be called Cash For Bass. The series is the brain child of Terry Melvin of Lunch Money Lures and Steve Eisenmenger. It is planned to be a small 5 tournament schedule with a championship tournament at the end of the season.  One of the title sponsors and founders is KD Outdoors.  The group put together the Cash For Bass tournaments to offer more of a low key and fun tournament experience as opposed to the high pressure, and at times high temper tournaments that exist. All of the information can be found at www.cashforbasstour.com

The catch & release bass season opens on Lake St. Clair on April 30th, 2011. There will undoubtedly be a lot of bass fishermen out to take advantage of the easy pickin’s of smallmouth during this time of the year. One heads-up for those looking to launch at Metro Beach on Saturday the 30th; there will be a March of Dimes walk at Metro Beach, so you may see long lines to enter the park. Metro Beach will probably have all of the booths open to handle the traffic, but I have personally experienced a wait of 20 minutes or longer to get in. Good luck to all the anglers.

Smallmouth fishing report from the weed beds in front of Metro in 7-9 feet of water. Reports of some decent success on 8/27. The beds are straight out from the daysail/PWC launch. One report stated picked up 6 fish ranging from 2.5 – 4 pounds in about an hour. Water was a bit dirty and we were pitching green pumpkin w/chartreuse tubes around the edges of the beds. Good luck.