From their looks to their fighting style to how we catch them to where they live, here’s how America’s favorite fish species stack up and which one reigns supreme. Bass anglers love bass, right? But ...

Hello folks, this week we come at you from the freshwaters of Lake St. Clair, positioned between Detroit and Windsor Canada. Today we're baited up with crankbaits and monolfilament fishing line, while ...

A group of Cornell University scientists have been outmaneuvered by a formidable (and genetically supercharged) adversary: the smallmouth bass of Little Moose Lake in New York State’s Adirondack ...

The 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake St. Clair in Michigan revealed three standout finesse lures. It’s a late-summer event on a giant, basically flat, relatively featureless Lake St Clair.

From the unsurprising domination of a jig-and-minnow to the rising popularity of the dice bait, here’s what the pros used to haul in trophy smallmouth during the August 2025 Bassmaster Elite stop in ...

Trey McKinney led from stem to stern. The 20-year-old from Illinois caught five smallmouth bass that weighed 23 pounds, 13 ounces Sunday to clinch the championship and the first prize of $102,500 at ...

A destructive predator has invaded Colorado, and a volunteer army is trying to defeat it. With fishing poles. At the Ridgway Reservoir Smallmouth Bass Classic, Western Slope anglers are competing to ...

Stalking smallmouth bass in creeks and small rivers is a top summertime angling opportunity. Trout are great. Bass are, too. Bluegills, catfish and even carp, are fun to catch. But in my opinion, ...

Smallmouth bass are prized by anglers but, when introduced to waters outside of their natural range, can outcompete native species. Despite years of eradication efforts in the Adirondacks, researchers ...

(For years, I’ve interviewed top anglers and have noticed many talk more about the little things that make such a big difference, such as proper hook set or netting. This is the third in a series of ...

St. Clair Shores — On a crisp, overcast morning on the dark, greenish-blue waters of Lake St. Clair, Dave LaVigne's fishing pole bowed like a candy cane as he reeled in what he hoped was a big fish. A ...