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 ...

There’s something refreshingly simple about slipping a kayak into the water at sunrise. No roar of an outboard motor. No rush ...

Water temps are slowly rising across much of the south and many states are starting to see pre-spawn activity. In Alabama and Tennessee, bass are already cruising shallow areas gorging on bait to ...

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 ...

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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 Susquehanna River is looking good. Smallmouth are in the spawning mode in many areas. One of the things I've noticed over the years is that smallmouth may be spawning in one section, but a mile or ...