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After having a tough MadWags Memorial fishing day I was fortunate to head back to Lake St. Clair for a rematch on Monday, May 9th with my friend Derek and my Godson Aaron - Derek's oldest child. We decided to run right to Muscamoot Bay off the bat, and glad we did overall.

We found bass on beds in reeds pretty quick. They had probably been fished by a bunch of people considering how they were acting but we were able to catch a few of them anyway using various methods and some persistence.

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My first smallmouth I caught off a bed came on a Texas-rigged Case Plastics Cash Craw in green-pumpkin red. It was a decent sized bass!

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Derek helps Aaron land a really nice smallmouth bass off another bed from Muscamoot Bay.

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Aaron shows of a nice smallmouth bass he caught off a bed nearby my fish!

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Derek lands a Lake St. Clair smallmouth bass a few minutes later off another bed.

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A short time later I caught another nicer one from another bed nearby on an Avocado stingray grub on ultralight!

After fishing the obvious beds for awhile we decided to move back into Little Muscamoot Bay to see what we could see. There were boats fishing mostly in the section closest to the South Channel, we figured probably on more beds. We went on our own to the very center of Little Muscamoot Bay approximately about the same depth everyone else was fishing.

There was a bolus of muddy water blowing across the flat back there so I steered to boat around that and started throwing a 3/8 ounce chartreuse and white willow leaf spinnerbait and right away smaller smallies started slamming the spinnerbait hard! Derek and Aaron put on spinnerbaits and we all caught a few pretty easy doing this just drifting across the flat towards the back shoreline. At one point I caught 4 or 5 in about as many casts. It was fun but we were catching any big ones.

Aaron started dragging a tube behind the boat and caught a nicer bass. So I started to cast a sand colored tube ahead of the drift and do short snaps along the bottom like a goby or minnow hopping along the bottom. It worked!

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I took a quick picture of my biggest smallie of the day caught snap-jigging a sand colored Xtreme Bass Tackle tube (out of production) along the bottom of Little Muscamoot Bay!

We caught a few nice ones on tubes swimming and snapping them along the bottom of Little Muscamoot before calling it a day to check a few more spots on the way in to the ramp. It was still a little early so we didn't find much in the way of other bass. Overall it was a good day landing maybe 30 bass. Better than I did on Saturday, and it was nice to see Derek and Aaron catch a few having fun on the big lake!