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 ...
PINE CITY, Minn. — High summer. When the humidity can take a kink out of barbed wire and deer flies raise welts on your scalp, the best place to take refuge is a cool, flowing river. A fly rod and ...
Further, a smallmouth will eat a natural crayfish or crayfish imitation even if the crustaceans normally are not readi­ly available. Just show one to a bass. He’ll know what to do with it. I use ...
Smallmouth bass are generalists and curious by nature, regularly taking advantage of their diverse feeding strategies. Any given day a smallmouth may gaze at the surface and go for a conventional/fly ...
I read about this technique from a Wyoming fly-fishing guide years ago. The more I learned, the more I realized this approach can be duplicated in a variety of water — from our cold-water trout ...
Nick Billmyer, 16, Fayetteville, holds up an impressive smallmouth bass he caught and released Aug. 15 while fishing with his dad, Steve, on the Mohawk River. Nick wrote: "This was our biggest, and ...
Smallmouth bass have long been a favorite quarry of mine. Smallies are gnarly fighters, equally capable of airborne acrobatics and those line-peeling runs we all crave. And in Idaho, they are found in ...
Bass, simply put, are not trout. Most local anglers wielding a fly rod seek persnickety salmonids such as brook, rainbow and brown trout, but in recent years a growing number have turned their ...
Fly fishing Indiana’s Lake Michigan coast for smallmouth bass is an adventure every serious bronzeback angler should experience. Indiana is home to about 40 miles of smallmouth rich lakeshore between ...