Lake St Clair, Detroit & St Clair River

Fishing and teaching are my passion and the opportunity’s are endless here, I have centrally located near northern Detroit so I can have a relatively short tow to boat launches in all three bodies of water. There is no substitute for being mobile, this is your best chance to minimize the obstacles mother nature can throw at you to ruin your day. Just to name a few Wind, mud, floating weed mats, fish migration and species of fish we seek for the day. Not to mention the method’s we are going to fish can alter where we launch.

I want you to under stand that the fishery here for walleye, musky and smallmouth is the best you can get in one connecting body of water.

I base this statement on my past experience of being raised fishing waters in Canada and having a family owned island on Lake of the Woods above Minnesota. Don’t get me wrong that is great area I just am saying I think this water produces great numbers and some of the biggest walleye, musky and smallmouth I have ever seen.

I also operated a charter business near Port Clinton Ohio for a number of good years but the lack of musky fishing and the lack of river’s made me seek a better place with more fishing opportunity.

I specialize in hands on fishing and teaching, keeping my numbers to 1-3 people per trip will give you the training you need to be successful .If you have ever thought about what it would be like to catch a musky by casting, remember I was raised doing this in Canada and regardless of how many people say you must troll to catch musky in Lake St Clair I will tell you that is not your only option.

I have had very good success casting Lake St Clair and both Rivers, the excitement of having one of those monsters grab your lure on the retrieve will stay with you for ever. In the past two years I developed casting for salmon with lures and I use my musky rods to do it with on The Manistee River they chase to the boat just like musky’s. My point is this is not a normal method but the most fun of any method I have used in my guide business in the past 25yrs. What I’m trying to say musky casting work’s.

The walleye jigging rivals anywhere I’ve fished , the speed of the river’s allows you to very quickly cover water and locate exactly where the heavily concentrated schools are feeding and most often catch all the walleyes you need.

In 2006 the DNR passed a new regulation making it legal to fish bass on a catch and release basis only, from the last Saturday in April until the regular season opens in early June. For those of you that don’t understand the benefit of this I will tell you what this means.