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“It’s St. Clair. It’s going to take a lot of weight. The fish are really biting here. Forward-facing sonar has changed the game. It’s almost not fair for the smallmouth out there, at this point,” Arey said.
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“Practice was good. Good enough for me to maybe win,” Ito said.
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“Lake St. Clair is fishing about as good as I’ve ever seen it,” Loughran said. “I think we’ll see a tremendous number of 18- to 20-pound limits each day.”
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“The fish seem to be recovered from the spawn and are starting to group up offshore,” Crews said.
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“Lake St. Clair is full of smallmouth bass, that is for sure. Everybody you interview is going to say the same thing,” Livesay said. “What they will say is there a ton of 2 1/2 pounders in here, and it’ll take 3 3/4 pounders or bigger every day. Some of its postspawn, but from what I can also tell that’s an overall average size for the smallmouth in this lake.”
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“There will be a lot of 20-pound limits caught every day,” Nixon said.
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“I’ve found what I’ve found and if I catch them I will,” Cifuentes said. “I’m done with practice (he was interviewed at 1 p.m.).”
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“It’s fishing really good; as good as I’ve ever seen it,” Lester said. “The fish are skinny though, and I think we’ll see a lot of 18- and 19-pound bags.”
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“You can catch a lot of smallmouth all day long,” Krieger said. “The challenge is catching the right size.”
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