Joe Diflorio, Syracuse, holds up a nice, fat, 19-inch, smallmouth bass he caught this week on Oneida Lake. He was fishing in 12 feet of water and hooked it using a shad minnow near Frenchman's Island.

Angler’s caught 107,000 Oneida Lake walleye last year, the highest number in any year since 2010. That number is based on preliminary data from a creel survey conducted by Cornell University ...

Thankfully, I live in the Northeast, a hotbed for smallmouth lakes, rivers, and streams. I’ve grown up catching these incredible fish and have chased them across the country in tournaments since. I’ve ...

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 ...