Got out for a bit today with my hardware throwing buddy that im trying to convert to fly fishing. Fished Lake St Clair near the airforce base for a couple hours. Right off the get-go I get a real nice small mouth near a seawall on a brown over white clouser but lost it as i was trying to get it on the boat. Several minutes i was rewarded with a decent pike. Not the monster im after but not bad either. Fished a rocky shore and slayed the rockbass, the biggest ive seen in a long time. One after another on the same clouser that the pike fell for. After losing that fly I tied on a simple pattern that is basically krystal flash in shiner like colors with red dumbell eyes and did even better on that! throw it out near the rocks, let it sink and bam! fish on!. Cast after cast. All total about 3 smallies, 2 Large mouth, 1 pike, 1 perch and about 100 rockbass. Its nice to see the lake actually coming alive again. As far as my hardware buddy? he got about 15 or so. Not sure if he’ll ever ask me out again but I cant wait to go. 
Love those rock bass!!! Sounds like a great time.
Next time, take some extra fly gear for him. 
Ed
Nice fish, nice boat…
Hey Greg, sounds like you had a good day out in front of Selfridge, one of my favorite places to fish this time of the year.
The pike action should be really taking off in the Salt River or down by the Sheriff department also.
I will be up there in a couple of weeks…
That whole side of the lake is popping right now. On the south side near 9 mile you can get all the smallmouths you want but the water depth of 10’ or so is a challenge for a fly rod. (not impossible though). On the selfridge side its 4-5’ deep and no problem with a longer leader to get a fly or streamer down that far and there is everything out there. Seen a muskie last year come up near the boat like a submarine. Id also like to get to muskamoot. With a slow start this spring and the 80 degree temps the last couple days the pig smallmouth should be in there heavy right about now.
If you tie, try some blue over chartreuse clousers with some rootbeer / copper krystal-flash in there. I’d offer to tie you a bunch but I’m out of both my blue and chartreuse bucktail… man I need to restock badly but the tying fund is only so big!
Great fishing report, and that’s a nice pike! Got to love those rock bass, too!
Tight lines,
-Pete