iFish Lake St. Clair

Well the smallmouth fishing is hot right now.  Where are the smallies? They are everywhere! Lots of fish being caught off the Mile Roads. Lots of smallmouth being caught off of Selfridge and plenty in the flats in and around Muscamoot. Most guys are fishing the usual baits of tubes in greens and blues.  Lots of fish also being taken using jerkbaits as well. You just can’t miss right now, so get out and start throwing some baits.  Now is the time to catch big 5-6 lb smallies. Good luck and be safe.

It’s that time of year again when the catch and release bass season starts on Lake St. Clair.  There will undoubtedly be reports of 100+ smallmouth catches per day.  The season opens this years on April 28th and all of the public launches are open.  For those that may not be familiar with the catch and release laws; here they are.

Catch-and-Immediate-Release seasons: On the following waters, bass may be caught and released during the seasons listed. All bass caught must be immediately (see common terms p. 5) returned to the water: L. St. Clair, St. Clair R. and Detroit R., from the last Sat. in April – Fri. before the 3rd. Sat. in June; All Lower Pen. waters including Great Lakes: Last Sat. in April – Fri. before Memorial Day; All Upper Pen. waters including Great Lakes: May 15 – Fri. before Memorial Day.

Good luck to all of the bass fishermen who come to enjoy such a great resource.  Please do your best to protect our fish so that we can continue to enjoy them for years to come.

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