From the unsurprising domination of a jig-and-minnow to the rising popularity of the dice bait, here’s what the pros used to haul in trophy smallmouth during the August 2025 Bassmaster Elite stop in ...

St. Clair Shores — On a crisp, overcast morning on the dark, greenish-blue waters of Lake St. Clair, Dave LaVigne's fishing pole bowed like a candy cane as he reeled in what he hoped was a big fish. A ...

The temps dropped fast, but we didn’t back down. With freezing hands and ripping wind, we hit Lake St Clair in search of big smallmouth—and they showed up. This cold-front grind was worth every frozen ...

Trey McKinney led from stem to stern. The 20-year-old from Illinois caught five smallmouth bass that weighed 23 pounds, 13 ounces Sunday to clinch the championship and the first prize of $102,500 at ...

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LANSING – Every spring for the last 15 years, Gene Gilliland and some friends have gone smallmouth bass fishing in Lake St. Clair in Southeast Michigan for a week. He and one friend travel from ...

Aaron Jagdfeld, 24, of Rochester Hills is not competing in the 2025 Yokohama Tire Bassmaster Elite starting Thursday at Brandenburg Park in Chesterfield Township. But remember the name. The young ...

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.