Lake Erie, Dale Hollow Lake, and the St. Lawrence River are just a few locations in the U.S. that grow giant smallmouth. These are iconic places to fish, but to truly be effective on those waters, you ...

When most people think of topwater smallmouth takes, they envision something violent: A slashing blow and shot of whitewater spraying into the air. Hits like that get the blood pumping for sure, but I ...

Smallmouths are simple homebodies, really. Though you may have found them difficult to catch just a month or two ago, they were there. Likely they were in the deeper water, sulking on the bottom until ...

What a difference a season makes when it comes to catching smallmouth bass from Ozark streams. Pat Bodishbaugh of Fayetteville and his fishing buddy walked the banks of Osage Creek in Benton County on ...

Ditch pickles and bronzebacks, bucketmouths and smalljaws. Largemouth bass and smallmouth bass go by many names, and when most Americans think about bass fishing, they picture one (or both) of these ...

Stalking smallmouth bass in creeks and small rivers is a top summertime angling opportunity. Trout are great. Bass are, too. Bluegills, catfish and even carp, are fun to catch. But in my opinion, ...

I have everyone's favourite boatless angler with us today, and we're out on the water in some nice cold -2 degree Celsius weather. We're all bundled up in full gear and even have on some nice toques.

I just wrapped up a week of fly fishing the lower Niagara River alongside the town of Lewiston, NY. My main target species was smallmouth bass, but because of the nature of the Niagara fishery, you ...

High summer doesn't come to the Shenandoah Valley until the thimbleberries ripen. Last week the scarlet morsels, also called wild raspberries, were still tucked away in their fuzzy capsules, ready to ...