There has been some local "buzz" of interest among area bass anglers as word of the near-record smallmouth was learned. But Shawnee is mostly a recreational lake for Northeast Kansas residents.

Piraino’s bass weighed an even 9 pounds, with an 18.25-inch girth, a 23.12-inch length. His bass easily tops the current New York smallie record, an 8-pound 6-ounce fish caught in 2022. Read Next: ...

There has been a buzz amongst the bass fishing community recently about a new state record smallmouth bass that was caught on Sept. 22 and speculated to be the new record, but it is now official.

If you’re familiar with Scotts Run Lake, then you understand why it’s almost unfathomable that it produced the state record smallmouth bass. The lake only covers 22 acres and has a maximum ...

This year’s Ridgway Reservoir Smallmouth Bass Classic, which has been running for 10 years, will open on Saturday, July 5 at ...

The smallmouth bass record comes only a few months after a new state record for largemouth bass was set on July 11. James Britenbaugh of Pennsylvania reeled in the record-breaking 12-pound, 6 ...

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

Even before Kyle Danhausen missed catching the Illinois-record smallmouth bass by an ounce Thursday, he was on a roll fishing near downtown Chicago. ‘‘I had caught somewhere between 20 and 30 ...

Image via Josh Johnson It's not every day that you break a state record. A fisherman may have just broken the Montana state record for smallmouth bass, and he ended up letting the fish go. It will ...

The smallmouth bass record comes just a few months after a new state record for largemouth bass was set on July 11, 2024. James Britenbaugh of Pennsylvania reeled in the record-breaking 12-pound, ...

OGDENSBURG, N.Y. – New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar has announced that a new state record for smallmouth bass was set on Sept. 22. Using a ...