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Lake St Clair

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Species

Smallmouth Bass

Season

Winter (Current)
215 Fishing Reports
1595 Followers

Lake St Clair Overview

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Top Techniques Reported for Smallmouth Bass + Winter

Hard Jerkbaits
  1. Hard Jerkbaits
    1
Total Fishing Reports
215
Top Species Reported for Winter
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  2. Smallmouth Bass1 Report
  3. Yellow Perch1 Report

Fishing Reports

215 Reports on Lake St Clair

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  • Kdk

    Bronze Ambassador

    11/8/22

    • Species

      Smallmouth Bass

    • Season

      Fall

    • Technique

      Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)

    • Structure

      Rock Pile

    • Forage

      Shad

    Got out on a warm flat day. Throwing natural shad colors. Used a zoom paddle tail in shad and a 4" ghost shad jerkbait. Gin clear water, hit some rocky flats and covered ground methodically but moved spots after I hit every direction 2-3 passes with each lure. Get the bait out away from the boat. Picked several up after letting the bait sit for 30 seconds plus. Best fish pictured was in the 5-6lb slot size but super filled up on shad. I'd have put it closer to 6-6.5 with the full belly. Got that one right before we lost the light 👍
  • Seth Feider

    Blue Ambassador

    10/29/20

    • Species

      Smallmouth Bass

    • Season

      Summer

    • Technique

      Ned Rigs

    • Structure

      Submerged Vegetation

    Smaller pockets of sand grass would hold roaming smallmouth for short periods of time. Rotating through several spots a day was key. Hardest part was slowing down the presentation. Ned rig would get the bites from the heavily pressured fish.
  • Extreme.Outdoorsmen

    Blue Ambassador

    10/28/23

    • Species

      Smallmouth Bass

    • Season

      Fall

    • Technique

      Spinnerbaits

    • Structure

      Rock Pile

    • Forage

      Minnows

    • Water Temperature

      55°

    I was fishing down by the mouth of the Detroit River searching for rocks and found a good rock pile where the smallmouth were hanging out and casted my spinnerbait in and he drilled it, they love gold spinnerbaits out there this time of year.
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