Thomas Russell and his long-time fishing partner and cousin Eric Sullivan were targeting smallmouth on Cayuga Lake when they hooked into the biggest smallmouth bass ever caught in New York state. The ...

From their looks to their fighting style to how we catch them to where they live, here’s how America’s favorite fish stack up and which one reigns supreme ...

If you don’t recognize the name Tim Holschlag, he is a professional smallmouth bass fisherman. He makes his living fishing for and communicating about smallmouth bass. After fishing one of my favorite ...

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 ...

In the world of American fishing, bass is king. While largemouth may be the more sought after variety, the smallmouth bass ...

It’s 46 degrees in the Columbia River, and, says guide Bob Adkinson, that means it’s time to start searching the bays and backwaters for smallmouth bass. “When the river temperatures get up to about ...

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 ...

Smallmouth bass rank high up on the list of most popular fish species in America. Though they fall short of the distribution range of the largemouth bass—America’s most popular gamefish—they’re still ...