GILES COUNTY, Va. – The New River in Giles County is scenic and, as it turns out, is full of fish. Chris Thompson invited me to go fishing with a promise we would have a better-than-average chance of ...

Smallmouth bass are pound-for-pound one of the hardest-fighting fish you can catch, and now is a great time to do so. If I could only catch one more fish in my life, I’d want it to be a smallmouth ...

When most people think of topwater smallmouth takes, they envision something violent: A slashing blow and shot of whitewater spraying into the air. Hits like that get the blood pumping for sure, but I ...

BERRYVILLE — The Kings River was at its best on June 1 for the second annual Smallmouth Shootout to benefit the Mayfly Project. Thomas Horsman of Fayetteville, fishing alone under the name “Idiot on a ...

Writing last summer in a publication by the International Game Fish Association, Lindner said, "We have entered the golden ...

Dave Genz has a secret. Minnesota's ice-fishing guru's favorite fish isn't the bluegill, walleye or perch. Genz is hooked on smallmouth bass, particularly Mississippi River smallies. Forget the ice.

Kings River isn't the stream it used to be, some anglers and floaters say. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission agrees. Over the years, floods have eaten away at shorelines that are devoid of ...

An Indiana man fishing on the Muskegon River near Newaygo landed a fish among the rarest in the country for its genetic condition that produces odd coloring. Josh Chrenko, an angler who has fished for ...

Through all of June, people can participate in the first-ever Great Smallmouth Bass Fishing Challenge on a 99-mile stretch of the Great Miami River from Sidney to Hamilton. In this time of coronavirus ...