From south Florida to New York, the temps are rising and the bass are biting. The bite is all over the place right now, ...

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Of all the different ways to catch bass, jerkbaits like the Rapala X-Rap and Jackall Rerange dominate pre-spawn smallmouth fishing as one of my all-time favorites. / Photo by Mike Staggs Bass ...

We also learned a few things. Pruitt and I primarily fly fish for trout. Fly fishing for smallmouth bass is a whole different game. Smallmouths fight dirty, and they will humiliate you if you duke ...

Smallmouth bass generally spawn once the water temperatures reach 60-65ºF. But just before that, as the water climbs above the mid-50s, the smallies start to frequent the shallow, hard-bottom ...

I got a strike the instant the spoon plopped into the water. It was a lively little smallmouth that splashed around some, but you can’t expect an epic struggle from an eight-inch bass. I quickly ...

Fishing for bass on their spawning beds has always been a touchy subject. Though it’s very easy to say that disrupting them while they’re trying to replenish future stocks sounds wrong, the reality is ...

The fish took its own sweet time, as smallmouth bass will sometimes do, eyeballing the rubber-legged popper as it drifted along the edge of a grass bed. I followed with the rod tip. You can’t ...

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Channel and flathead catfish are abundant. There are also reports of smallmouth bass and walleye biting. Located inside Baumann Park in Cherry Valley, the 26-acre lake has easy access to the water ...