iFish Lake St. Clair

Been a while since our last report, so here you go with the most up to date Lake St. Clair fishing report on the web.

Smallmouth Bass Report

Lots of reports of some smallies being caught off the mile roads.  The fish are in deeper water – 12 to 14 feet.  Go for the usual tubes and cranks in natural colors.  Also getting reports of some nice bass being caught off of Metro Beach in 10-12 feet of water.  Go for tubes and try some Erie Darters and DS Darters on a drop-shot rig.  Set yourself up for a good drift once you find the weed beds.  Stick to the edges.

Perch Report

Steady reports of perch being caught off of the St. Clair Light area.  Set-up around 15 feet of water with perch rigs and emerald shiners.  You’ll have to weed through some small ones, but some jumbos are out there.

Musky Report

Reports from the Salt River area of Anchor Bay from casters and trollers.  Big blades and big tubes for the caster and body baits in perch and jailbird colors have been catching fish.  Get near the weed beds in 12 feet of water.  Grassy island has given up some fish as well.  Towards the south end of the lake we’ve been getting reports from the Dumping Grounds.  Try different depths as the fish are fluctuating based on cloud cover and temperature.

Walleye Report

Getting some reports of walleye being taken out by the Firecracker on planer boards.  Guys are fishing natural colored bombers and rapalas. haven’t heard a depth, but you’ll probably see a few guys out there.

That’s is for now. Good luck and be safe.

Bit of cooler weather coming by, but don’t let that stop you from getting out as the fishing is really good right now.

Smallmouth Bass Report

The smallies are fairly heavy off the mile roads straight on up to Metro.  Follows those weed lines and throw tubes and cranks.  Lipless and lipped cranbaits doing well.  Go for 8-12 feet of water. Go for natural colors like perch and shad.  Make sure you have a second rod ready as follows from other fish are going to happen.

Walleye Report

Still getting reports of success jigging in the North end of the Detroit river.  Go Fin-S on a chartreuse jig head.  Fish being caught primarily in the morning on both the US and Canadian sides.  Also getting some reports of walleye being caught in the lake off the mile roads.  Trollers are having some success pulling crankbaits in 10-12 feet of water.  Expect a mixed bag with smallmouth in the area also.

Perch Report

I’ve heard a few reports of Perch being caught around the 400 Club tower on minnows.  They do seems to be scattered however, so you may need to move around a bit.  The St. Clair Light area usually starts to get some fish around now, but we haven’t heard any reports from there yet.

Good luck and be safe.

The smallmouth have been gobbling up fishflies over the last few weeks but are still hitting for fishermen.  Getting reports of smallmouth from 9 mile road all the way up to Selfridge.  The fish are typically from 10 feet of water and less.  The smallies are being caught on tubes and other plastics; jigged and drop-shot.  There are fish to be found deeper along the North and Middle Channels for those looking to fish deeper.  As the fishfly hatch ends, the bass will start to transition to their summer patterns.  Rest assured we’ll be bring you the reports as the bass locate cooler waters.  Good luck.

Well it’s that time of year again when the fishflies (mayflies) hatch and fish get full bellies. Fish with full bellies are harder to catch.  Still getting some reports of walleye being caught in the dumping grounds area on crawler harnesses.  Smallmouth are still plentiful but are starting to move to their post-spawn deeper water haunts.  Unfortunately, there haven’t been a lot of reports lately to relay as many fishermen are not catching many fish.  Musky have been fairly active around Grassy Island and the Salt River area both casting and trolling.  Go with the perch colors for the toothy critters.  Hopefully the flies will end soon.  Good luck.

Reports are starting to come in about walleye being caught from the spillway to Metro. Fishermen are pulling crawler harnesses with bright bladed harnesses. Productive colors have been green/yellow and green/orange. Look for 5-7 feet of water.

Smallmouth still pretty thick in Anchor Bay. Areas are a bit spotty, but the Selfridge area is still a good bed. Go with the usual lipless crankbaits and tubes. White is always good on the tubes. Look for emerging weedbeds. Fish are starting congregate at these areas.

Good Luck!

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The lake is still dirty in most popular smallmouth fishing areas.  Fish are still being caught however.  Most success has come on lipless crankbaits.  Makes sense with the dirty water, the fish need a chance to find a bait.  Still seeing some fish caught on tubes too.  Personally, I’ve caught 20 fish on a lipless for every one on a tube.  Selfridge has been productive and still holds a lot of fishermen as well.  We’ve fished the mile roads area and have found the best spots off of Memorial Park (look for the tent and blue seawall) and off 9 mile by Ford’s Cove.  Good luck.

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