You may not be able to explain it. But you feel it. And you’ll need the best smallmouth bass lures to chase it. Whether you fish rivers like the Snake, Potomac, John Day, New, Niagara ...

Time to travel, and this smallmouth guide are suggestions of places to go. A perk of my 49-year outdoor writing career is fishing coast to coast and discovering the best fishing spots.

Greg Gasiciel caught a 9.33-pound smallmouth bass that barely eclipsed the previous record set in 1906. It was the sixth state record for Michigan this year. A Michigan fisherman broke a 109-year ...