Jerkbaits are one of the most effective lures for smallmouth bass all season long, but I’d argue they shine the brightest during the pre-spawn stage of the early season. Their ability to be worked at ...

Bass fishing is just plain fun. But what’s the most fun way to catch them? On my way up to a recent Northwoods bass fishing week, a friend asked if there was some specific bite I hoped I would ...

It’s the last week of April in Wisconsin and soon smallmouth bass will be making beds and getting ready to spawn. I’ve been fishing the Wisconsin River for over a month this year for walleye and ...

The smallmouth bass near Eastern Lake Erie harbor waters are often massive in size at this time of year, like this 7-pound, 3-ounce goliath that measured just shy of 23 inches in length. Photo by ...

The Algonquin name for the smallmouth bass is Achigan, or "one which fights." The name fits. The smallmouth is a fish with anger issues. When a smallie hits a topwater plug, there seems to be an extra ...

Upstate New York is blessed with some of the best freshwater fishing in the northeast, from salmon to walleye, trout to muskie. But the state’s most popular sport fish is bass, probably because they ...

You can find him regularly on the biggest walleye tournaments in the country, but don’t expect Tom Keenan to be fishing for walleyes during the early spring in Wisconsin where he lives. Keenan became ...

Time to travel and this smallmouth guide may give you some places to go. A perk of my 39-year outdoor writing career is fishing coast to coast and discovering the best fishing spots. I chose my ...

If I could only catch one more fish in my life, I’d want it to be a smallmouth bass. Pound for pound, smallmouth fight harder than any other fish I’ve ever tangled with, and they live in some of the ...