See which 3 lures dominated the 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series on Lake St. Clair, Michigan. Spoiler alert: the jig-and-minnow, dice bait, and drop shot fooled some big smallmouth bass at this event.

Kyoya Fujita shows off to the TV cameraman, a smallmouth bass he reeled in during the Bassmaster Elite Series competition in Anchor Bay on Lake St. Clair on Saturday, July 29, 2023. Fujita ended ...

Kyoya Fujita shows off to the TV cameraman, a smallmouth bass he reeled in during the Bassmaster Elite Series competition in Anchor Bay on Lake St. Clair on Saturday, July 29, 2023. Fujita ended ...

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"First and foremost, there’s Smallmouth Bass. The Bass action on Lake St. Clair is so hot that it’s frequently ranked among the best Bass lakes in the US," the website wrote in its listing.

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Through my own experience, along with watching plenty of professional bass fishing tournament coverage, the smallmouth in Lake St. Clair love to school up and feed all at once.

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.

In March, the website published a guide to fishing on Lake St. Clair, which noted it has a significant population of largemouth bass in addition to its smallmouth bass.