We landed bass up to 4½ pounds, and fish in the 3- to 3½-pound range were common. Some put on impressive displays of aerial acrobatics, while others dug for the depths.

So, if you want to catch smallmouth bass in rivers this summer, follow these topwater tactics. Choose Your Attack Time The summer sun is your enemy for two reasons. Most critically, when streams get ...

Young Andrew Frelock has been catching smallmouth bass, steelhead, rock bass, red horse suckers and sheepshead in Lake Erie tributary creeks using his fly rod for the last week or so. Submitted photo ...

LaSalle-Photo/Getty Smallmouth bass are a warm-water predatory fish, native to eastern North America. They were put into Lake Powell in 1982 for recreational fishing purposes.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced a new state-record smallmouth bass on Thursday. The smallie weighed 9 pounds even, and it was caught Sept. 22 in the St. Lawrence River ...

However, river smallmouth are a little different since the water acts as a conveyor belt, bringing the bugs right to the fish. “Bass are all over the place right now,” says Spaccapaniccia.

It was a grim discovery. Smallmouth bass, whose native range encompasses rivers and lakes in much of the Eastern United States and Great Lakes, have long plagued the Colorado River.