or vertical bars (on the smallmouth). Depending on water clarity, cover, and amount of sunlight, largemouth bass can range in color from pale (almost white) to dark green (almost black).

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In Grand Rapids, after you've caught your fill of steelhead, you can switch rivers and chase big, aggressive smallmouth bass. Here's how.

or black. Poppers and prop lures can be fished the same way and they’re two of the best smallmouth bass lures. Deliver the bait to a likely spot and let the ripples settle. Twitch it once ...

A smallmouth ... white. It's a classic for a reason, and that reason is it flat out catches fish. Fish it in a rust or orange color and bounce it off the bottom, and it's a crawdad. In black ...

They blistered the fish. “We caught dozens of jumbo yellow perch, a lot up to 13 inches, plus some walleyes, white bass, smallmouth bass and catfish,” says Smith, a long-time local fisherman with wide ...

Learn More › Smallmouth bass are brutes. Pound for pound ... Though colors like brown, olive green, and black might not be the most exciting to your eyes, they match a wide range of forage smallmouth ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Laurel River Lake is home to three black bass species: spotted, smallmouth and largemouth. A 2018 bass assessment conducted on the lake by ...

Regulations change for perhaps the most popular tournament fish.

So, if you want to catch smallmouth bass in rivers this summer ... riffles or delicately finessed in softer water. Its signature white tail hangs just below the surface mimicking an aquatic ...