St. Clair Largemouths?

Michigan's Lake St. Clair is nationally known for its jumbo smallmouths and for the giant muskies that cruise its clear, cool waters. Rarely discussed is a highly dependable largemouth fishery. Lake St. Clair guide Doug Cummings commonly visits predictable largemouth areas just to add fun and variety to smallmouth days, and the green fish almost never disappoint. Cummings doesn't recall any St. Clair tournaments being won on straight largemouth bags. Someone always finds a pod of the lake's jumbo smalllmouths. However, largemouths in the 2- to 4-pound range serve up fast action throughout the season. Cummings' favorite baits for Lake St. Clair largemouths are BOOYAH HD Spinnerbaits and XCalibur Xr50 Rattle Baits. On calm days, he'll add a Super Spook to the mix.

Family Photo

Little to do with the outdoors and the sort of stuff normally found on this
blog? Maybe. But it's Father's Day, and this is my family - and there's no one I more enjoying the outdoors with than the crew pictured here. And a happy Father's Day to all my friends who are dads!

Absolute Delight

Eleven-year-old Nathaniel and his 4-year-old brother Asher teamed up to land this one. Asher was working a YUM Dinger when the bass hit, and it looked briefly like he had things under control. In his excitement, though, he started reeling the wrong way and cranked the handle right off the reel! Recognizing the dilemma, Nathaniel grabbed the line and fought the fish, hand-line style. Asher, meanwhile, ran and got the net, which Nathaniel then dipped under the bass.