Bass fishing is about as iconic a summer activity as eating hotdogs at baseball games and launching fireworks on the Fourth of July. It’s a time for warm, sunny days on the water, chucking baits and ...

Thomas Russell and his long-time fishing partner and cousin Eric Sullivan were targeting smallmouth on Cayuga Lake when they hooked into the biggest smallmouth bass ever caught in New York state. The ...

Salmon are starting to show up in the lower Niagara River, steelhead are knocking on the door of Lake Erie tributaries, and there is plenty of action going on in our open Great Lakes for a variety of ...

Angler Tom Russell and his fishing partner Eric Sullivan have worked together in team bass tournaments for over 20 years. And the morning of June 15 they were on a tear, boating huge smallmouth bass ...

Plenty of hefty smallmouth bass fall for crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and midsize swimbaits all along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. These more aggressive lures have their time and ...

The 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake St. Clair in Michigan revealed three standout finesse lures. It’s a late-summer event on a giant, basically flat, relatively featureless Lake St Clair.

Fishing the round house area, he used Ned rigs, tubes and drop shot rigs, but needed larger profile baits in the muddy conditions to get fish to hit. His big bass was a 5.53-pound smallmouth, which ...

In Alabama, the pollen is thick on the truck, the buttercups are popping out of the ground, and the dogwoods are about to bloom—all indicators that bass should be heading onto beds soon. The same can ...

NEW YORK — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton recently announced in a press release, the open season for largemouth and smallmouth bass, collectively ...