iFish Lake St. Clair

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.

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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On Friday the smallmouth were stacked up in one particular area off of Selfridge.  There were large numbers of fish being caught not only by our boat, but other boats around us.  The smallmouth were relatively shallow in 3-4 feet of water.  Most of our fish came on lipless crankbaits in any perch type colors.  The fish hit on a fast stop and go retrieve.  Other boats were also using tubes with success.  Tubes also caught more fish on a fast retrieve.  It seemed like the larger fish came on the lipless cranks however.

If you have a GPS here’s the waypoint: N 42° 37.032′ W 82° 49.057′

Good Luck

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