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Speaking of pike, BIG pike! VinceR invited me to ride along on a practice day with him on the big lake, Lake St. Clair. I said yes of course. VinceR wanted to concentrate on less beat up parts of the lake hoping to get on something not as popular as the Mile Roads and boy did we get on the pike first!

Vince got the first big one casting near some weeds near a channel! A BIG one! They were all pretty much big this day!

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Vince got this full grown pike on a fluke type lure fished slowly. A few minutes later I caught a pike almost as big that did it's best to steel my Strike King KVD 2.5 crankbait! I got it off the lure about the time my line finally parted keeping my lure because Vince netted it for me. A risky move with slippery pike.

For a while all we caught were bigger, full-grown pike. Danny was frowning. But sometimes when you're hunting and pecking, doing some experimenting that's just the price you pay...

After hours of not getting on any new bass hot spots and only seeing a few bass caught by the few other boats around VinceR had mercy on me and took me to Muscamoot Bay. We found many of the earlier beds already empty and the few bass on them still where Derek, Aaron and I fished recently were extremely jumpy and sensitive. Vince had them on a few times but they weren't biting good.

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So we went back into the middle of Little Muscamoot Bay again like before and I started burning the same 3/8 ounce painted chartreuse and white willow leaf spinnerbait. I immediately got whacked but before I could get too excited I realized it was a giant goggle-eyed rock bass... not a smallmouth bass. At least it wasn't a pike! ;D

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Moments later I got whacked with a little more authority and yes, finally a smallmouth bass! A small one yes, but it felt good nonetheless! Plus it told me there were smallmouth bass still in the area. It wasn't easy to see bottom at times but it looked like there were now a few dark spots in the area, possibly beds.

There were tons of bass and fish boats closer to the South Channel and we didn't want to join the pack so it helped to know there were bass in this area too where we didn't have any company.

I switched to the same sand tube from before and immediately had a good bass on but somehow after a few seconds it got off. This time though it appeared that snap-jigging wasn't the hot tactic. Vince started getting bit casting and short-dragging a dark tube. He got most of the bites.

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The first good one VinceR caught though came on a swimbait slowly reeled near the bottom in the shallow Little Muscamoot Bay. It was a solid bass you expect on a swimbait. The rest were caught on tubes. And then it was time to go after a long day of experimenting and a short time of just going fishing to catch a few. Thanks Vince!