Lake St. Clair Bassmaster Open Breakdown

[@hookonefishing]

Great info and good baits to use out there. Keep up the good work

[@joebauerfishing]

@@hookonefishing Thanks Pete see ya on the water 💪🏻

[@brett_Thorpe]

Great video and info Joe. I fish LSC, As I live very close to it from 🇨🇦. Bass have never been an issue for me to catch, love it. This year I took on Muskie fishing and that’s been a battle. Been out a few times and haven’t even had a follow yet. Been jigging and casting and after 3-4 days on the lake. Still no action. Sooner or later I’ll get my bite and even a follow. Been fishing the north channel mostly. Tomorrow will be another day and hopefully I’ll get my first. Cheers

[@joebauerfishing]

@@brett_Thorpe There’s been a lot of Muskie action around Stoney Point in the green water. Good Luck and Tight Lines!

[@brett_Thorpe]

@@joebauerfishing Thanks Joe, I’ll check out that area. Cheers and be safe on the water.

[@wjb111]

Great info!

[@joebauerfishing]

Tear Em Up!

[@jeffpops5290]

Driving past metro on Saturday morning I seen over 100 big bass dead and there was a lot more! Damn shame!

[@joebauerfishing]

Yes that is. It will keep happening until our DNR steps in and holds these tournaments accountable. I’ve been to alot of tournaments and have NEVER seen anyone from the DNR checking them to make sure the resource is being protected.

[@Mustang_Dan]

@@joebauerfishingyou’re actively promoting it. Use your platform to speak out against the devastation these needless tournaments inflict upon our lake and fish. We should be demonizing the tournament and all the tournament anglers. Bunch of sissies using electronics too.

[@geostrong3606]

That's sad to see I'm resident of stclair shores

[@lukehaynes481]

Where is a good place to stay. I just want to do a couple day fun fishing trip.

[@joebauerfishing]

@@lukehaynes481 any of the hotels in Chesterfield

[@gummo3873]

The Bassmaster Tournament breakdown in a nutshell 🥥 A bunch of guys in $75,000 boats zipped around the lake doing the same exact things all of us locals do to catch em in front of TV cameras, kept them in their "live"(dead)wells all day overstressing said fish out, stood in front of more TV cameras for a "weigh in" while pretending to be "professionals" and then released all of these fish into warm, low oxygen leveled water where the vast majority of said "released fish then died....never to grow and/or be caught again. And thats pretty much it. Livescope has turned "professional" bass "fishing" into a completely different animal, better described as COMMERCIAL CATCHING. * A shout out to all of my LSC Muskie Anglers, a.k.a REAL fishermen. 👋🏻 🎣

[@joebauerfishing]

@@gummo3873 Muskie Fishing Rules, Bass Fishing Drools. They did have a release boat that took them out to blue water to let them go for this tournament, but I will not disagree there is a large delayed mortality. While seeing the weights that the locals were putting up before this tournament, these guys did have better weights.

[@shad-fishy-kitch]

Co- anglers need to just keep casting. I’ve caught a lot of fish up there that I never saw on FFS. They are all around.

[@joebauerfishing]

I get a ton of bites out past where the sonar can even reach. Long casts can be deadly.

[@downbutnotout138]

Your tournament killed a lot of our bass 😢

[@joebauerfishing]

Well Mr. Downbutnotout138 I have no affiliation with B.A.S.S I was simply reporting how the guys that fished it caught their fish. I did not fish the tournament and I make my living guiding on Lake St. Clair so I would really like for them to be plentiful and big. I’ll make sure to personally invite you when I host a tournament though. I do agree that these big tournaments have a big impact on the fishery and it does kill a lot of fish, whether that be in the anglers livewell or even after they have been released.

[@geostrong3606]

Yes they do every tournament

[@DennisDuffy-n8g]

I fished it as a coangler and drew a forward facing sonar guy it certainly wasn’t a pleasurable experience basically a 500 dollar boat ride with one fish he let me catch at the end of the day 😮

[@joebauerfishing]

@@DennisDuffy-n8g They don’t care about coanglers, all they see is extra $$.

[@1stJohn215]

Imagine that, fishermen catching fish and killing them...maybe you guys fishing on the lake the rest of the year should put the rods and reels up for the year.

[@geostrong3606]

They where rookies

[@joebauerfishing]

Those rookies sure can real em in!

[@geostrong3606]

@@joebauerfishing yes sir

[@joem8875]

Joe you have to reconsider the way you’re promoting the sport, the shear amount of dead bass after the tournament is disgusting. With your voice and reach, please consider becoming more of an advocate for c and r type tournaments. This shit is 1950s type of conservation, we can do better

[@joebauerfishing]

@@joem8875 The Michigan DNR does absolutely nothing for conservation in this state. Organizations have to register their tournaments with the state, however there is no follow up with any biologists or CO’s making sure that the resource is being protected. They spend all of this money tagging fish that provides little to no helpful data and none patrolling these tournaments. I absolutely agree that we need to do better. There should never be a tournament allowed to launch from Crocker or Selfridge unless they have a live release boat taking the fish back into the blue water instead of the cest pool by the ramps. The number of tournaments that are allowed is disgusting. I would love to see a lottery system with a cap on the amount of permits issued for tournaments. Texas Parks and Wildlife is leading the way for conservation, Michigan needs to take notes from them.

[@Mustang_Dan]

@@joebauerfishingorrrrr, you could use your platform to speak out against it instead of just saying “well the dnr doesn’t do anything.”

[@joebauerfishing]

@@Mustang_Dan I’ll get right on that, thanks for your support!

[@joem8875]

Joe you have to reconsider the way you’re promoting the sport, the shear amount of dead bass after the tournament is disgusting. With your voice and reach, please consider becoming more of an advocate for c and r type tournaments. This shit is 1950s type of conservation, we can do better

[@hookonefishing]

Reach out to the DNR instead of posting on a guides fishing report