Smallmouth bass inhabit both Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, but Kentucky is known to have a greater population. It simply comes down to habitat, and Kentucky Lake has more deep water with a rock ...

I live in one of the most trout-rich states. Idaho is chock-full of blue-ribbon waters, and fly anglers descend upon them ­every spring. I like to target trout as much as the next guy, but I can only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you don’t recognize the name Tim Holschlag, he is a professional smallmouth bass fisherman. I know that may sound like an oxymoron — “professional smallmouth bass fisherman” — but he makes his ...

Mike Jacobs' extensive trout angling experience in an earlier life has served him well in his grown-up life as a smallmouth bass enthusiast. Like most smallmouth anglers, Mike would prefer to fish in ...

We’ve reached the point in winter where updating and organizing gear becomes a sport. My tackle bags are as clean as they’ll be all year. My guns are oiled and lined up perfectly in their safe. There ...

Fly fishing Indiana’s Lake Michigan coast for smallmouth bass is an adventure every serious bronzeback angler should experience. Indiana is home to about 40 miles of smallmouth rich lakeshore between ...

Ross Purnell has fished around the globe, creating videos in Mongolia, Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest, but he has a special love for the place he calls home: Pennsylvania. “I’ve been here over 20 ...

Smallmouth bass are pound-for-pound one of the hardest-fighting fish you can catch, and now is a great time to do so. If I could only catch one more fish in my life, I’d want it to be a smallmouth ...