When most people think of topwater smallmouth takes, they envision something violent: A slashing blow and shot of whitewater ...

At the 2026 Great Miami Riverway Smallmouth Bass Fishing Challenge, a West Milton angler won the competition for the second time in a row with the largest smallmouth. Kyle Grosvenor, who was among the ...

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 ...

As the old saying goes: "third time's the charm." That surely was true when 58-year-old fishing guide Chris Senyohl set out May 23 onto the 4,900-acre Lake Sammamish in Bellevue, Washington. Senyohl, ...

Husband and wife fishing duo Cole & Jay celebrate an incredible milestone as a woman reels in a historic, record-shattering ...

Oneida Lake's smallmouth bass population has been declining since 2015 - anglers are researchers ask where's the bottom?

Researchers are looking into what’s causing open sores, lesions and female sexual characteristics in young, male smallmouth bass. For the last 10 years, a mystery has been unfolding in the Susquehanna ...

Smallmouth bass fishing is strong along Ohio’s Lake Erie coast, with anglers reporting high catch rates and healthy fish populations.

Decades of efforts to eradicate invasive smallmouth bass from a midsized Adirondack lake have led to a surprising result: The bass rapidly evolved to grow faster and invest more in early reproduction, ...

Dan Brown made a cast close to the bank, something he’s quite adept at. Soon after the lure’s splashdown, with his casting ...

We hit the water locked in on smallmouth bass. The structure looked perfect, the conditions were right, but the bronzebacks ...

This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On July 1, 2022, a National Park Service biologist named Jeff Arnold was hauling nets through a ...