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St Clair May 1st-8th

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#1 ·
First time to St. Clair, can't wait! We've been to Presque the last 10yrs and decided to change it up this year! If anyone else will be there same time and would like to compare notes, shoot me a message! Thinking fish will be on beds, should be great as long as weather stays stable!
 
#1,721 ·
Got here Monday afternoon and tried muskamoot. Didn’t have much luck caught 17 small smallies. Saw beds but forgot the flogger and couldn’t see fish without it. Went to mile roads Tuesday and casted a swimbait around catching about a dozen and using the flogger to catch over 50 total of 64 even a couple really nice largemouth. Today was crap caught 9 on the mile roads and got beat up by the waves and tomorrow is going to be worse , doubtful we’ll even try to go out
 
#1,722 ·
Fished the Sni in the middle channel and caught 60 bass and pike with a handful of smallmouth. Spinnerbaits and Skinny Dippers. Just had a killer meal at the Marine City Fishouse.


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#1,731 ·
Confirming Mile Rds reports.
Crazy good. We caught over 60 on Green pumpkin Ned, red eye shad and weighted spanish fly skinny dipper. Bass were eating bugs on the surface today before gusts and boat traffic started. They would come up out of no where right in front of boat and eat and cruise the surface then shoot back down. Couldn't find a productive way to get those fish but slow reeling on the bottom was getting destroyed. My hands hurt from the heavy pressure of setting the hook and playing 3lb plus fish all day. Multiple fish were following in when you hooked one. Most of the lake is in good shape and in the low 70's by mid day. Crowds have been lighter still than in years past.

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#1,733 · (Edited)
Still catching but had my trim motor seize. ROSE MARINE in FairHaven had me fixed up in 6hrs. Highly recommend them.
Fished close to selfridge ramp yesterday because of trim issue.
Didn't do to well. Random SM and alot of rock bass. No numbers of largemouth there like last week???

Tonite after we picked the boat up at 5pm, we headed out to an infamous cove that another OGFr has knicknamed, (Bitch[emoji2526]Bay). [emoji16] The Bitch was back!
40 nice fish in quiktime

We were fishing black buzzbaits and ripping-bulging spinnerbaits.
Layed into a pile of male smallmouth and lost 2 very big females. My Kistler rods and 50lb Pline TCB got a serious workout.

We rarely try fishing the eve bite, and i really enjoyed it. Will sleep good tonite.


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#1,734 ·
Still catching but had my trim motor seize. ROSE MARINE in FairHaven had me fixed up in 6hrs. Highly recommend them.
Fished close to selfridge ramp yesterday because of trim issue.
Didn't do to well. Random SM and alot of rock bass. No numbers of largemouth there like last week???

Tonite after we picked the boat up at 5pm, we headed out to an infamous cove that another OGFr has knicknamed, (Bitch[emoji2526]Bay). [emoji16] The Bitch was back!
40 nice fish in quiktime

We were fishing black buzzbaits and ripping-bulging spinnerbaits.
Layed into a pile of male smallmouth and lost 2 very big females. My Kistler rods and 50lb Pline TCB got a serious workout.

We rarely try fishing the eve bite, and i really enjoyed it. Will sleep good tonite.


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sUPRISED THEY ARE IN BITCH BAY. MUSTA WARMED UP FAST!
 
#1,741 · (Edited)
Wrapped up our trip yesterday @SANG. Finally figured out how to catch those freaky mayfly munching cruisers that were busting all over the place. Popper was getting vicious strikes in the barracks area. As soon as the wind picked up and the sun was high, the mayflys on my boat were gone and that bite shut off.

I am confident that the females are close to joining the abundant school of males that we caught. If i were there now, I would work the 8-10' depth and drift into 7.
Lots of bait in there, and good cabbage weeds, deep and shallow. Some are dead and some are fresh. 3/4 oz Willowleaf Spinnerbaits, 1/4 & 1/2 oz Red Eye shad (Gold sexy shad), 3.5" & 5" Skinny dipper, 3/8 oz Booyah popper, 3" Jackall Yammyfish (green pumpkin), and a 3/16 oz Joshy pro Blue did most of our work. I only caught them jerking 2 days. Had alot less foul ups, weedy hooks, and still generating those good reaction strikes using a lipless. Picked up alot of walleye there too. The next area to turn on will be the Anchor bay section. Good luck to those on the lake this week![emoji2526][emoji226][emoji2526]


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#1,745 ·
Hee heee
You need to keep that snake in the livewell until you cross paths with a tracker boat driven by an old bald dude. Just pass them on the right and hand the snake to his blonde co-pilot.
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