Like many bass anglers, John Deshauteurs has an abundance of specialized tackle. Rods with a broomstick-strength backbone and multi-gear reels that are engineering marvels. Tools to drop a jig into a ...

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 ...

When I arrived back in the Midwest, the warmer than usual late-summer weather was replaced by a cold front that sunk air and water temperatures downward on the Fahrenheit scale. Refusing to be ...

Pro Fishing Guide Mike King shows us how to catch smallmouth bass on a fly-rod using a popper and Pro Fishing Guide Todd Boyer’s “Wiggle Minnow”!

If you don’t recognize the name Tim Holschlag, he is a professional smallmouth bass fisherman. He makes his living fishing for and communicating about smallmouth bass. After fishing one of my favorite ...

Jack Ballard, a Red Lodge-based outdoor writer and photographer, will discuss the tactics and flies for smallmouth bass fly fishing at the Magic City Fly Fishers Dec. 3 meeting at the Billings Rod and ...

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 ...

Summer can be cruel to a devout trout fisherman. I found that out during the relentless drought of 2016. By July, flows on the Farmington River—my home water in Connecticut—were reduced to a pathetic ...