you haven't eaten the right ones then the smallies we catch in lake huron are sweet like perch
but, zone 16 covers a LARGE area, more than can be covered in a day or two, windsor to scarborough,up to penatang,over to tobermory, which part are you interested in?, and bass season opens 4th saturday of june
theres lots of places in the bruce peninsula where you can catch bass from shore, and boat rentals are pretty cheap for tinner with a 9.9 on it