Smallmouth Fishing

When river fishing for smallmouth bass and the conditions change you may need to search for another strategy.  With the rain coming this weekend in the east, you may want to try this combo using an inline spinner bait linked to a small swim…

Fishing for winter smallmouth can be a trying time unless you have become good at understanding winter smallies. Winter smallmouth fishing is a blast because it is rare to get a dink. To feel the subtle mush mouth or slight…

Fishing the Hocking River for smallmouth bass, here's some impressive smallmouth knowledge from a young gentleman who is making the best of what he's got access to on the Hocking River in southern Ohio. With new rain and looking at the…

Does great weather and warm temperature trigger smallmouth to eat? Great news for Lehigh fishermen. ﾠThe Lehigh River tends to be overshadowed by the Susquehanna and the Delaware Rivers. ﾠIt has become a great fishery and is a place where…

I agree wholeheartedly with this author to keep fishing, hunting hot spots secret. ﾠAlthough it is nice to get tips and location information for great fishing hot spots, with the internet, a hot spot can be ruined quickly by too many…

When the Delaware River smallmouth spinnerbait bite is on, watch out. The fish here are lean and mean. They don't have the forage that you get on the Susquehanna or Lake Erie so when you get a hold of one, they are all muscle and put up…

When catching smallmouth bass, there is always a danger of gill hooking the fish and causing enough bleeding to kill the fish. Smallmouth bass are pretty resilient and fishing with artificial baits with constant attention to whether you are…

This smallmouth bass spawn map is a helpful map for predicting the spawn. ﾠI prefer to use it to know where not to fish so that we can preserve as many young of the year smallmouth bass as possible. ﾠThe Susquehanna River right now needs…

Watch this episode on Smallmouth on the Juniata River from Backwoods Angler TV to see how you fight through adverse conditions, high pressure weather, blue bird skies and keep searching for different patterns until you find it or the fish…

Sometimes throwing a spinner bait for mallmouth bass is the most fun a human should be allowed to have. Black blade spinners for river smallies are an option to have in your tackle box. Whether you are slow rolling it along the…