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Vacation & Fishing - Waterfront Rental Home

                               More photos, rates, & details at
                                          www.stclairrental.info

                        email: rbdonaldson66@yahoo.com
                                        or call 810-278-2799

 Vacation home with dockage on
  the St. Clair River, Marine City.
   Spend your day fishing, go
 antiquing around town, or just
relax and watch the ships go by!

FISHERMEN's Rentals & Vacation                                    Rates/Photos/Amenities
          Homes w/Dockage                                         @ www.stclairrental.info

Vacation Rental                                                   of the Year, Rookie Marshall experience
                                                                  of the Year, and the in the 2013 Pro Elite

with Dockage                                                      Winner of the Lake Bassmaster Tourna-
                                                                  St. Clair Tournament ment on Lake St.
         This is our view
                                                                  itself won $100,000. Clair.

   365 Days a Year!                                                     The tourna-
Smallmouth Bass • Muskie • Walleye • Perch
                                                                  ment hosted the top Wednesday
                                                                  99 fishermen in the Marshall Meeting
                                                                  world, which had – Night Before Tournament

Anchor Bay waterfront  More photos, rates, & details at           one Pro and one Mar-                All 99 marshalls from around the
home @ Piers Marina.              www.stclairrental.info          shall/boat to ensure      country (which included a woman from In-
Centrally located be-                                             the honesty and inte-     diana and one from Texas), as well as mar-
tween the Fair Haven                                              grety of each tourna-     shalls on the waiting list were required to

and the North Channel  email: lakestclairguide@yahoo.com          ment fisherman.           attend the rules meeting. This was hosted
DNR launches... both            Call Kim @ 586-202-3100                 Being behind        at the Carhartt headquarters just outside
only minutes away!                                                                          of Detroit. Each day a Marshall would
                                                                  the scenes as a mar-

Marshalling a Bassmaster                                          shall was a huge be paired with a single pro and his boat to

                                                                  learning experience keep things honest. During the 45 minute

  Tournament is NOT                           for   Dozens of decked out                                      meeting, we
for the Weak and Timid                        bass                                                            were told
                                              f i s h - expensive rigs at the                                 that the Mar-

   At speeds of            on Lake i n g ,          Marshall's Meeting                                        shalls are
70 mph there was                              as                                                              not allowed
                           St. Clair          well                                                            to help the

no slowing down for R a c i n g               as a                                                             Continued
a wave in these 21' around Lake               terri-                                                           on page
                                              fying                                                             54....
bass boats.                St. Clair at       ex-
                                              peri-                                               This truck was
                           70mph, not         ence at the same time.                           completely covered
                                              Marshalls were able to                            with photos of his
                           slowing for        participate a minimum of                         Facebook Friends....
                                              two days, with the possi-
                           34’ boat           bility of a third day, and
                                              then a drawing for
                           wakes in a         the final day.

                           21’ bass boat,               You'd think
                                              marshalling is an
                           only inches        easy job, but it’s
                                              not. Many marshalls
                           on top of the      scratched themselves
                                              off the list after the first day ended! The
                           water, was         following is Carl’s interesting story of the

                           part of a nor-

mal day being a marshall. Being a member

of Bassmasters, my husband Carl was able

to secure a coveted spot of Marshall for the

Finals of the Pro Elite Tour held on Lake

St. Clair this past year. This finale Pro-

Elite Series Tournament crowned Angler

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