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Fishing near Detroit, MI


Set in Wayne County at the heart of the Lake Erie–Detroit River–Lake St. Clair–St. Clair River corridor, Detroit sits beside one of North America's premier freshwater fishing systems. Lake St. Clair, roughly 430 square miles and about six miles from downtown, connects Lake Huron to Lake Erie and acts as a constant fish-migration highway, producing trophy smallmouth, walleye, and muskellunge year-round.

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