The DNR has tagged and released more than 7,000 Lake Michigan smallmouth bass in the past decade. Tag data returns indicate that smallmouth bass have increased in size and number compared to 20 or ...

Provided Share Smallmouth bass, even in late November, draw boaters to southern Lake Michigan for a good reason, as Kevin Higgins showed on Nov.25. With water temperatures down to 41 in the ...

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 ...

Lake St. Clair: Walleye and perch were caught near the mouth of Clinton River in 12 to 13 feet of water by anglers drifting with crawler harnesses.Good smallmouth bass fishing happened along the ...

One was a golden-hued bluegill caught by Terry Nelson while ice fishing on Lindstrom Lake in Minnesota. Remarkably, ice angler Rick Konakowitz caught a similarly colored golden crappie on Clear Lake, ...

Smallmouth bass are known to be the hardest-fighting fish, pound for pound, swimming in fresh water. Throughout the Midwest, they are found from the Great Lakes to tiny Ozark streams. They live in ...

Flowing 200 miles along the Michigan and Indiana border before its confluence with Lake Michigan, the St. Joseph River offers top-notch angling for smallmouth bass in an area of the Midwest easily ...

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

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 ...