Lake St. Clair Fishing Report 04-26-23
What a difference makes when it comes to water temperatures on Lake St. Clair. The week prior after the warmer temperatures it was reading from 58 to 64 degrees depending on where I was. This day the water surface temperatures were running 43 to 46 degrees. When I arrived at the boat ramp it was below freezing and made for a slippery iced up dock. Heavy fog covered the lake as I idled out to fish. I spent the majority of my day in 7 to 12 feet of water. There was a good bite early in the fog and a good bite later around 2 pm when I was getting ready to head home. Managed to catch 20 for the day dragging the bottom and using a jerkbait mainly. I did catch one on a spinnerbait, and some on a crankbait as well. My friends that were out there told me they got 17 for the day, and one other guy I know fishing out of his boat caught 4. You definitely had to work for them, and they are somewhere staged out there in that vastness of a large lake waiting to move up. It was a good time except for when I had to leave. Someone had hit the floating dock and knocked it loose. It was the only dock they had at the launch, and it made it extremely difficult loading up. I had to climb in the back bed of my pick up truck and climb around to the door to pull out. Detroit traffic dead stopped turning into a 3-hour drive home made me consider how much do I really want to fish there. lol
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