Lake St. Clair
October 20th, 2008
A huge lake between two straights in the Great Lakes system, but’s it’s not recognized as one of them. Total world class wamwater fishery and probably one of the best Smallmouth scenes in North America. It’s not drift fishing the St. Croix, but it diverse (1-9 feet deep) and supports 6lb smallies.
You can site fish them on the flats in the spring, or fish blindly over deep weed edges in the summer and fall. Clousers, crayfish patterns and weighted sculpins (a non-indigenous species, round gobies are over the great lakes now.) Heres a pic of pops. I have had 20 fish days on flies. 4-5 pounders……..
MR
This is a really great picture! Holeee schnap that’s a HUGE Smallie.
I’ll be moving this post over to the “out of area contributors” page later today. Send me more stuff Matt!
H3L
Comment by Hellcat — October 21, 2008 @ 7:09 am
Big green slimey things are fun to catch on a fly!
Comment by Nookslayer — October 21, 2008 @ 10:10 am
I gotta tell ya….this picture is so cool. I just love everything about it. Good on ya Grinchy’s Pops!
H3L
Comment by Hellcat — October 22, 2008 @ 5:02 pm