howdy yall my names keith from dayton ohio, and i joined here a week ago and have spent a week viewing info on lake st clair. searched around and flipped through forums, and well this sounds like the place to be... however i dident find exactly what i was looking for... thought maybe yall could help me out?
im planning to go to st clair the last week of may in to the first week of june but i have some concerns. ive never been there.
first off, ill be staying in canton at a buddies house.. so what ramp should i look at going to that will put me on some good fish? i dont want to put in and run 10 miles, id rather drive the 10 miles and put in... planning on putting in somewhere between the mouth of the detroit river. and southern st clair. maybe slightly north of belle island?
now ive read on here to fish grass bed for smallies, and thats really what im going for, taking a break from the largies... how do i locate certain grass beds or decide which one will work? i have a humminbird 998 in the back i can side scan for under water beds... but i dont want to spend my whole 4 days searching...will there even be grass beds there in may?
i know this is a shallow lake... are there places you cant run? kind of like kentucky lake...where you cant just go where ever, is there some sort of bouy system to run? how do yall navigate that lake?
ive heard smallies love the tube jigs... so what kinds of colors do they like up there? drop shot texas rig carolina rig? what kind of line? i assume 12 or 14 lb mono will be fine?
any tips would be great