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Best Smallmouth Bass Lures For 2025

In the world of American fishing, bass is king. While largemouth may be the more sought after variety, the smallmouth bass ...
An Ozark stream can be a gentle ribbon of flowing water one moment, then a raging torrent the next. Savvy paddlers know to have a backup plan in their life jacket pocket when a float trip is on the ...
Cold winter water makes bites slow to come by and even harder to feel when they do happen. Jeff Littles’s winter jigging techniques help you set the hook. Everyone loves a powerful, rip the rod out of ...
From their looks to their fighting style to how we catch them to where they live, here’s how America’s favorite fish stack up ...
Skittering a jig-and-pig across the bottom near structure and cover is a good way to nab smallmouths. Buffalo National River The Buffalo, our country’ first national river, is Arkansas’ best-known ...
Across the world, a number of transplanted game fish and animals have adapted amazingly well to their new environments. New Zealand is a cornucopia of introduced species. So is Argentina to a lesser ...
I’ve had this old deer tail floating around since I was a kid. It was from my first buck, a half-rack I shot with my ...
Most anglers will tell you the salmon is king in the Pacific Northwest. The bright red meat, especially from a spring chinook salmon, is high on the list of the best-eating fish around. Other anglers, ...
The Milwaukee River slipped over a gravel bar at our feet and swirled around a boulder at midstream. Now, in mid-July, it ran clear like tea and well within its banks. Bill Schultz of New Berlin and I ...