In this week’s pro’s pointers, Lee Timmerman and MWC World Walleye Champion & N.D. Fishing Hall of Fame member Johnnie Candle ...

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

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

Fishing for smallmouth in the fall changes later in the season, as water temps drop below 60 degrees. This is typically when smallmouth will move off of structure and into deeper, open water.

Right now, the rapidly warming waters of our protected eastern Lake Erie harbors and stream flows attract many fish species, among them are throngs of smallmouth bass. Some of the bass are huge ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. – The 3½-pound smallmouth bass smacked a tube jig on his very first cast, and during one stretch on this picture-perfect September day, it looked as if Ben Barrus might ...

The Smallmouth Bass is a common freshwater species and is recognized for its sensitivity to pollution. It can be readily caught early in the game, with a low difficulty rating of 28.

The pre-spawn smallmouth bass jerkbait bite was the answer I gave my friend. It is genuinely one of my favorite ways to catch bass, but also I had a feeling I’d run into prime conditions for ...

One of the best ways to catch smallmouth bass in rivers is by wet wading and throwing topwater lures. Here are some tips and tactics that can help you catch more smallies this summer.

Dropping water levels have also allowed some of the lake’s smallmouth bass to slip through the dam’s turbines and into the Grand Canyon below. Colorado River managers started seeing this around 2021.

Smallmouth bass are part of the game within the game on Mississippi’s rivers and current-oriented lakes. They’re not typically as finicky as crappie, but targeting them comes with its own demands.

The first time I saw a typical Lake Erie smallmouth bass fatty, I was 11 years old. The fish weighed 5 1/2 pounds. My buddy’s dad said, “They’re all like that out there.” It was late June, he had been ...