Fly fishing for smallmouth bass is one of my favorite summertime activities. My only problem is deciding whether to fish them topwater or subsurface. Topwater bass fishing is definitely exciting but…
Will Rollins, of Vienna, Missouri, has spent his entire life in that little central Missouri hill town. Much of his time, however, he spent happily chasing smallmouth bass on the nearby Gasconade…
Tube-bait has been garnering attention and catching boatfuls of fish for a record number of years.
Tube baits and smallmouth bass are a match made in fishing heaven. Representing their preferred…
"I'll yank a good smallmouth from under this log coming up," said my long time fishing buddy Vern Clemens.
We drifted lazily down the Gasconade River in the Missouri Ozarks. Clemens handled his…
When it comes to river fishing, there's one thing you can pretty much count on: change. In my April 10 blog I described my first productive river smallmouth bass trip of the year — one brought on by…
Immediately following the spawn is not usually a productive time for catching smallmouth bass. They are exhausted from the rigors of courtship and tend to be a little fickle. But they can still be…
