From the unsurprising domination of a jig-and-minnow to the rising popularity of the dice bait, here’s what the pros used to haul in trophy smallmouth during the August 2025 Bassmaster Elite stop in ...

St. Clair Shores — On a crisp, overcast morning on the dark, greenish-blue waters of Lake St. Clair, Dave LaVigne's fishing pole bowed like a candy cane as he reeled in what he hoped was a big fish. A ...

Hello folks, this week we come at you from the freshwaters of Lake St. Clair, positioned between Detroit and Windsor Canada. Today we're baited up with crankbaits and monolfilament fishing line, while ...

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich., Aug. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Yokohama Bassmaster Elite at Lake St. Clair certainly hasn't been difficult for Trey McKinney, but after three days of competition the ...

Hello folks, this week we're back in the freshwater of lake St. Clair. This time we're rigged up with flexi jigs baited up with artificial plastics as we catch ourselves a mixed bag of smallmouth bass ...

Trey McKinney led from stem to stern. The 20-year-old from Illinois caught five smallmouth bass that weighed 23 pounds, 13 ounces Sunday to clinch the championship and the first prize of $102,500 at ...

LANSING – Every spring for the last 15 years, Gene Gilliland and some friends have gone smallmouth bass fishing in Lake St. Clair in Southeast Michigan for a week. He and one friend travel from ...

The 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake St. Clair in Michigan revealed three standout finesse lures. It’s a late-summer event on a giant, basically flat, relatively featureless Lake St Clair.