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Shenandoah River Smallmouth Alive and Swimming!
The Shenandoah River is making a rebound and the smallmouth bass appear to be well on their way to recovering. Back in 2004, smallmouth bass were found to be dying and pollution was suspected.
In 2006, the river was so bad that it…
The Decline of Susky, Potomac and Shenandoah Smallmouth Bass: What Does It Mean To The Chesapeake…
The declining numbers of smallmouth bass found in the main stem and lower Susquehanna, Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers is being recognized as a canary in the coal mine. More and more people are recognizing the fact that smallmouth bass are…
Smallmouth Spawning: Let’s Get Busy
The readers of everything-smallmouth.com come from a wide geographic area. In some areas, smallmouth bass are getting ready to spawn, in other areas, you are still shaking off winter and you are still in the pre-spawn phase.
Since we…
Maine Alewives: Will They Hurt Or Help Smallmouth Bass?
The Maine legislature is currently in the process of deciding how rapidly to open up Maine's St. Croix River to alewives. Alewives are a native species of fish that were blocked from entering this waterway since 1995 due to concerns that…
Smallmouth Markings
What are the markings on this smallie?
This is a questions and picture recently submitted by one of our readers. These marking are due to a pigment called melanin and are found typically in bass over 12 inches and most often in cold…
Impact on Smallmouth Bass: Is There Something In The Water?
Smallmouth bass are clearly being affected by something in the water in the Mid Atlantic region. The young bass population is decreasing in the Susquehanna River, their reproductive organs are half testicle, half ovary in the south branch…
Can Killing Smallies Grow More Smallies?
How can killing smallmouth bass increase smallmouth populations? What about catch and release?
This may not make any logical sense but today I came across an interesting study done in 2008 on a small lake in upstate New York name…
Are Bass Sensitive To Sunlight? (Fact or Fiction)
There is a common myth that bass are sensitive to sunlight and that they hang out near cover, logs, weeds or go deep to get away from the sun because they have no eyelids.
This is probably not the truth, although since we can't actually…
Smallmouth Bass Facts: America’s Hardest Fighting Fish
The smallmouth bass is a freshwater fish that is native to the middle Mississippi River basin, and to the Saint Lawrence River and Great Lakes system, clear up into Hudson Bay. That said, as a popular game fish, the smallmouth bass has been…
Stories Of The Collapse Of Susquehanna Smallmouth Bass
We have frequently written about the decrease in smallmouth bass populations in Central Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River. Here are some excerpts from stories submitted to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
Stories of the…