On the St. Louis River, Minn. - 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 ...

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 ...

Billy Rosner steps out of the canoe and wades into the Vermilion River. It's a warm morning in late June. Rosner begins casting a Mepps spinner across the current flowing clear and amber around his ...

When it comes to smallmouth vs largemouth bass, there are probably more similarities between the species than there are differences. Both are among the most sought after freshwater game fish in the ...

When I arrived back in the Midwest, the warmer than usual late-summer weather was replaced by a cold front that sunk air and water temperatures downward on the Fahrenheit scale. Refusing to be ...

Hello folks, today we are drifting along the waters, fitting up with the new Thunder Braid braided line and black flexi-jigs ...

Four years ago, I wrote a column about fly-fishing for smallmouth bass on the John Day River in Oregon. I mention this because some of you may actually be able to remember something that happened ...

This week we'll fish for mountain smallmouth bass. On this edition of the Journal we'll head for the mountains to drift a river for smallmouth bass. In Gear Time our anglers discuss what top water ...

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More so than many area fly casters, Mike McLellan at McLellan's Fly Shop in Fayetteville likes to get in his licks during the peak smallmouth bass period of late spring. Lately, he has been testing ...

I have to warn you, as a travel story, this thing probably falls short. There’s no service angle, no timely peg. No advice, tips, checklists, “if you go”, etc. I’m not selling anything, except maybe a ...

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 ...