Thanks to effective catch and release practices, smallmouth bass in Lake St. Clair are bigger than they used to be because they live longer, according to a recent DNR study.

LANSING – Every spring for the last 15 years, Gene Gilliland and some friends have gone smallmouth bass fishing in Lake St. Clair in Southeast Michigan for a week. He and one friend travel from ...

Today we're out on the water with Enzo out on Lake Eerie's eastern basin at 5am, trolling for smallmouth bass. We're trolling with the misty minnows, which are realistically shaped crankbait minnows.

Lake St. Clair, Michigan: Urban Smallmouth Paradise Why It’s On the List: There needs to be a Great Lakes smallmouth option on the list, and while St. Clair isn’t technically a Great Lake, it ...

Manistee and Benzie counties have a variety of shorelines, docks and piers suited for fishing for anglers without a boat or ...

Aggressive stocking by both the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Michigan DNR coupled with solid long range plans have contributed to Sturgeon Bay’s outstanding fishing.

With July just about here and the ceiling of summer temperatures in sight, I often find it to be this time of year when bass fishing is at its best. I am not an expert in bass fishing, though when I ...

Smallmouth bass are prized by anglers but, when introduced to waters outside of their natural range, can outcompete native ...

How to catch Smallmouth bass post-spawn and pre-summer. -Laker Howell’s tip for hooking more bites on a Senko. -Catch bass on cover in high, stained water.

It’s all happening at the same time as the start of one of the latest fishing seasons in the year. Smallmouth bass harvest season opened this past weekend in Northern Wisconsin. But, anglers in the ...

Weiss: No need to launch boats when fishing for smallmouth on skinny rivers A trio of rivers in southeastern Minnesota offer perfect opportunities to fish for smallmouth, and to do so on foot.