An Ohio angler has caught the largest smallmouth bass ever reeled from Lake Erie and the Great Lakes. Gregg Gallagher, 54, a high-school business teacher in Fremont, caught the 10.15-pound bass ...

The result of a savvy fishing guide and Lake Erie smallmouth bass waters that have been on the upswing in recent years was a 10.15-pound bass that is the largest ever caught by a sport angler on ...

The Biggest Smallmouth Bass Ever Caught All-Tackle Record: 22 pounds, 4 ounces David Hayes holds up the all-tackle world record smallmouth bass he caught in 1955. Photo by IGFA. The all-tackle world ...

The world record smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) was caught in Tennessee in 1955. Fifty years later, it was named the official sport fish of the state.

Lake Erie’s smallmouth bass and largemouth bass in area reservoirs are wrapping up their spawning seasons, with the already ...

How smallmouth bass turned the tables on Cornell scientists trying to eradicate them from a lake in the Adirondacks over a 25 ...

WHEN A 36-YEAR-OLD Alabama insurance agent named Ray Scott acted on his big idea to elevate a particular fish to superstar status in 1967, he set in motion a fervor that remains today. Bass is the ...

It was – and still is – the biggest smallmouth bass ever caught in Pennsylvania. For 28 years, Steelman’s state record has stood unmatched. Will it ever be broken?

One of the biggest keys to identifying smallmouth vs largemouth bass is in their names. The smallmouth’s mouth is—you guessed it—smaller, with the corner of the jaw typically about even the ...

Thanks to effective catch and release practices, smallmouth bass in Lake St. Clair are bigger than they used to be because ...

Fall is one of the best times of the year to catch big smallmouth, but cooler water temps call for a slightly different approach. Here are some tips on where to look for big autumn bronzebacks and ...