And there are loads of topwater lures designed for open water schooling bass, covering the lilly pads, and everything in between. The options below will help you experience some life changing bites ...

Wrapped in quilts, I lay beneath a makeshift lean-to made of a big brown tarpaulin that kept off the dew but not the chill of the early-summer night ... It wasn’t a catfish; it was a giant smallmouth ...

From fly fishing techniques to the typical drop shot and Ned rig, there’s plenty of bass ... smallmouth that are worth pursuing with chatterbaits, crankbaits, and even topwater during the early ...

RICHMOND, Va. — More than half the people who fish in Virginia catch smallmouth bass, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR). Now the state is hoping to hear from ...