Most anglers pack it in for winter, but late-season smallmouths are just heating up. Discover where to find them and the ...

Like many bass anglers, John Deshauteurs has an abundance of specialized tackle. Rods with a broomstick-strength backbone and multi-gear reels that are engineering marvels. Tools to drop a jig into a ...

From their looks to their fighting style to how we catch them to where they live, here’s how America’s favorite fish stack up ...

ON THE ST. LOUIS RIVER -- Ouitdee Carson stands on the bow deck of his boat, scanning the St. Louis River. It's dusk on an evening in July. Carson, a Duluth fly-fishing guide, is looking for ...

No species is more closely associated with freshwater fishing than bass. It’s what most people—anglers and nonanglers alike—envision catching when casting into a lake or pond. And it makes sense ...

If you've never fished for smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you are missing out on a great game fish. They are aggressive, ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The walleye fishing has been very good recently around Lake Erie, but for die-hard bass anglers, it’s all about the smallmouth bass. Now that the bass have moved shallow around the ...

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 ...