A memory from a trip from the past with Ben Felton. The weather didn’t want us to run all over & not get wet, but we had a great time anyway prowling St. Clair canals & seawalls.
An average St. Clair smallie, but I like the shot & it’s my favorite sweat shirt. Photo by Mark Gomez
Angie took this shot of the sun setting behind the ridge over a Lansing Grand River backwater as I tried to pull one more bass off a laydown I’ve caught many from over the years.
My lucky sweatshirt or just lots of big northern Michigan smallies abound. Photo by Larry Dekker
Florida fishing friend Jon Peters with a huge Okeechobee largemouth caught on a bright but incredibly windy fishing day in February 02.
Jeff Bishop hoisting another St. Clair smallie into the boat.
Mark Gomez with 2 huge fall St. Clair smallies on a day we won’t ever forget.
Dan Launstein with a Thornapple Lake crankbait smallie – a bruiser trailing several broken lines.
Me with 2 more full-grown Northern Michigan smallies from a past opening weekend trip where prespawn smallie were marauding.
Mark boats a nice Hardy Dam Pond smallie from a spring 03 trip with Brian Spear and I. We caught a good bunch of nice bass including 1 solid largemouth.
Derek with a pair of jig and pig largemouth from one of our few local lakes - Lake Lansing.
Boating a decent smallie in the middle of nowhere is common on the Great Lakes. No shore in sight in this photo.
Mark with another nice smallie from our spring 03 Hardy Pond trip – with Brian Spear in the background.
Larry hefts two big fall smallies caught on an Indian summer day in the fall where the big ones were biting all day.
Dan with a pretty Baseline Lake smallmouth that bit a tube off a breakline.
Derek hoists a Great Lakes football smallie into the boat.
Mark 'cameraguy' with an October St. Clair toad smallie – my elbow ached at the end of that day.
Brother Bob with a monster Saginaw Bay smallmouth – a real spinnerbait buster!
Spartan Larry with a N. MI smallie that hasn’t missed any meals.
For those who like variety, common on many Michigan lakes is the chance to catch both nice largemouths & smallmouths like these Gull Lake beauties Larry caught on a spinnerbait.
She’s my wife & she can catch ‘em too. This decent smallie came almost out from under Michigan Ave in downtown Lansing.
Here’s a great downtown Lansing Grand River crankbait smallie. The crankbait works really well in a stained water river environment.
Interesting about this old photo of me in my ‘Fudd’ outfit, I was cranking the Grand for salmon on a snowy February 1 & started popping smallmouths despite conventional wisdom saying they should be ‘dormant.’