Late Ice to Open Water: St. Clair Walleye and Smallmouth Bite Heating Up

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2:00This is artificial lure with your Lake St. Clair fishing report. We're in that sketchy, late ice, early open water window now. Yesterday's catch in any video out of the sulfur area showed riders still running quads and sleds, but with fog, shoreline melt, and crystal clear, thinning ice underfoot. Ice is fading fast on the south end, with more open water pushing in near launches, so treat any remaining ice's assay safe unless you're checking every step with a stud and running a float suit. Whether wise, local forecasts are calling for an unseasonably warm stretch pushing toward the 60s and even 70s by early next week, with light south winds this morning building into a breezier afternoon. Cloud cover is mixed, giving you decent light for sightfishing under the remaining ice and a nice chop for jerkbaits in open pockets. Sunrise is right around 7am, sunset near 6.30pm, so you've got solid low light windows on both ends. No real tide here,

3:00just sisy and wind setup, but a south for southwest blow will push water and often bait up on the American side. Watch those wind lanes on the mile roads and around the mouth of the channels. Fish activity is picking up. According to a lake sink clear early spring bite report from March 6th, the Detroit River and River mouths are starting to kick out wall eyes with a few early runners sliding in. Anglers are boating, eater-sized fish on vertical jigs tipped with minnows, along with a few bigger hands being released. Same report notes, small mouth starting to stir on the brakes adjacent to wintering holes, with just enough open water to drag a jig. On the main lake yesterday's late ice trip out of sulfurage showed lots of smaller porch with a few better fish mixed in, all in 3-5 feet, Roman clear water. That lines up with what guys are seeing off gross point and up toward the metro beach weed flats. Lots of life, but you've got to read through dinks to find a decent batch. Best produces right now for late ice pan fish

4:02and bonus walleye. Tiny spoons and gold or perch pattern tipped with a minnow head or single waxy. Three to four millimeters tungstened jigs with spikes or mouses. Fish just off bottom and kept moving. For early open water walleye in the river and cuts, three to eight to one half ounces jigs with emerald shiners or plastics and char trues, fire tiger or natural shad. Slow short hops right on bottom most bites feel like just a little mush. For small mouth staging on the first breaks, net rigs and med rigs imitate gobies and craws and are standard on st. Clare. Wired two fish lists the strike king coffee tube and z-man finesse trd as go twos for clear water small mouth and those play perfectly here. A suspending jerkbait and natural shiner or perch colors will shine once we get more open water and a bit of wind. Live bait, emerald shiners are still king for walleye in parch, fadheads and small golden shiners working a pinch. For perch under the ice, a single spike or mousy on a tiny tungsten jig will outfish

5:05everything when they get finicky in that clear water. Couple of local hot spots to put on her list as conditions shift. SCW-15. Selfridge Harrison township shallows, late ice perch in three, five feet and an early shot at walleye sliding through once that ice breaks up. 10 mouth of the Detroit river and down toward the bell aisle side. First push of migratory walleye showing on jigs. This will only get better over the next week. 9 in 10 mile offshore breaks, classic early season small mouth zone once the ice is gone and temps tick up a bit. Keep an eye on the forecast, respect that late season ice and start getting the river gear and jerkbait boxes ready. We're right on the doorstep of prime time. Thanks for tuning in and don't forget to subscribe.

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