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 ...

Fly fishing Indiana’s Lake Michigan coast for smallmouth bass is an adventure every serious bronzeback angler should experience. Indiana is home to about 40 miles of smallmouth rich lakeshore ...

His biggest previously from Lake Michigan was a 23 1/4-inch smallmouth, weighing 5-9. “I had about 10 around 5 1/2 in the 13 years I have been fishing down there,” Whitacre said. “I knew ...

Great summer fishing continued this week, with a variety of fishing to choose from, including Great Lakes chinook salmon, walleye, and smallmouth bass and inland stream trout and bluegill, the ...

Here are some fun and fishy facts about a very popular game fish to tens of thousands of Michigan anglers: the smallmouth bass:•The Name game: Smallmouth bass are also known as smallies ...

Northern Michigan fishing has made another list: Bassmaster magazine unveiled its 2014 list of top 100 bass lakes in the United States, and five of our fishing holes made the list, and Grand ...

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, ...

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 ...