Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

Went out to Cass today for the first time this season with a friend and had an awesome outing. Launched around 8 at Dodge 4 and headed east once we got in the main lake. We started fishing a ledge 4-20FOW a couple hundred meters south of the state park (where there is concrete walls going in to the water, not the beach). Immidiately caught a magical 13.5 inch smallie on a great lakes perch XBT tube. We then left our drift push us over a sandy/rocky flat in about 5-8 FOW and my friend hooked up with 2 keepers (1 barely, 1 maybe 2.5lbs?) on a yellow perch shad rap. After about 30-45 minutes of no action we moved.

Fished the underwater islands/humps just east of d4 and had zero luck. Fished the shallow sides and the deep sides and couldnt make anything happen so we bailed and moved on to what ended up being the most productive spot of the day (size wise).

That spot was right at the entrance to Coles Bay. As soon as you enter the bay there is a noticeable water color change from the depth. You enter at about 3 ft, and where the water gets dark blue it drops to about 20, then down to the mid 30s shortly right after that. We targeted the edges of the weed beds in about 10-15 FOW using great lakes perch tubes. Caught a 3.2 and a 3 in there and a couple other solid keeper smallies throughout the day. Look for an American Flag/UofM flag and start at the weedbeds there ;).

Fished Dollar Lake, caught 1 3lb largemouth and a few dinks. Even the cutest little pike ever.

Found a hump near a point by the dollar lake canal (by the mansion off Wards Point) that went from about 40 FOW to 18 then back to 30. Saw MULTIPLE fish on our electronics there just couldnt seem to get any to bite. Tried deep cranking, dropshots, jigs, and tubes. Hopefully you will have better luck.

All in all awesome day. Probably about 16-17 bass caught. 8 or so being quality keepers. Finished with a best 5 of about 13ish. Probably could have caught some more but the diehard jetskiers started to take over that lake in the afternoon. Perch color seemed to do the trick, but I think the next outing I'll have to try some great lakes craw since 2 pinchers and some mushed up crayfish got regurgitated on my carpet today.  :o

Hope this helps!

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