My days on the water are a bit more enjoyable since eliminating the 2-4 mile hike downstream to put-in. Every stream smallmouth bass angler who fishes solo and wants to cover more water than what’s available at bridges or other access points faces the same issue: how do you get from your vehicle (typically left […]
Nowadays with so many lines on the market it’s easy to be confused on which best suits your type of fishing. This article takes a look at the various types of fishing line available and how they might perform for smallmouth bass fishing. Don’t Go Cheap A lot of fishermen make the mistake of selecting […]
While most serious smallmouth bass anglers diligently practice catch and release, unfortunately we also know that some guys still keep lots of their smallmouth bass and oppose regulations that mandate release. And one of the tactics that kill anglers use to confuse the issue and to derail catch-and-release regs is to say that it does […]
My affair with limestone goes back a long way. Growing up around steep hills and rocky ridges, some of my earliest smallmouth bass fishing was in the local limestone-laden streams. In love at first sight, I was immediately captivated by the look of these streams as they twisted past golden bluffs and rushed over ragged […]
There are smallmouth bass in 48 states, with just Alaska and Florida the only holdouts. You can even find ’em in unlikely places like Nevada, Texas, even Hawaii … Sure, plenty of guys know that states like Pennsylvania, Virginia and Tennessee have so many bronzeback streams it’s hard to count them all. But a lot […]
I’ll bet you didn’t know there were smallies in Africa. I didn’t either until two brothers from South Africa started writing to me saying they were also hard-core smallmouth fans. They invited me over to fish with them, and over the next 18 months kept sending me South African photos of big smallies and beautiful […]
