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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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.

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.

Port Huron hosts Major League Fishing’s Team Series opener, bringing top anglers and national attention to local waters.

With fishing season in full swing, Bassmaster has unveiled its list of the 100 Best Bass Lakes in America, and Michigan is well represented.

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.