The fish are still shallow, especially on cloudy and windy days. Multiple baits are seeing success. Ned rigs with green pumpkin baits, and small jigs with brown and orange trailers like Bass Pro’s XPS ...

This pre-spawn smallmouth jerkbait bite happens all across the Northern U.S. and Canada with giant bass and unforgettable strikes! Here are lures, conditions, and expert tips you need to know. Bass ...

Wow! The smallmouth bass are on fire! Fish any small pocket 6-10 ft deep with a Bass Pro Teaser Tube (puke color) on a 1/8 ounce ball head with a 2/O hook. Keep that topwater lure handy. Shallow ...

It's a windy day out here on Lake Erie. Luckily smallmouth bass love windy fishing conditions and we jig up bass after bass using the stingnose jigging spoons. As always until next time, good luck and ...

Hello folks, this week we come at you from the freshwaters of Lake St. Clair, positioned between Detroit and Windsor Canada. Today we're baited up with crankbaits and monolfilament fishing line, while ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Lake Erie’s smallmouth bass and largemouth bass in area reservoirs are wrapping up their spawning seasons, with the already good fishing guaranteed to improve under balmy skies in ...

New York state’s 2025 regular bass season opens tomorrow, June 15 and runs through Nov. 30. There’s also a catch-and-release season from Dec. 1 through June 14. Smallmouth and largemouth ...

Topwater baits are the most exciting way to catch largemouth and smallmouth bass. Find out why you should stock up on poppers, walking baits, ploppers, buzzbaits, and frogs for the best fishing days ...

Forrest Fisher shares the fun of springtime catch-and-release smallmouth bass fishing in Dunkirk Harbor — it’s exciting fun. Submitted photo The first time I saw a typical Lake Erie smallmouth bass ...

Spring is fat bass season in the Great Lakes region, as the big, egg-laden females get ready to spawn. It’s during this time of year that some of the heaviest smallmouth bass are typically landed, and ...

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