Tom Tatum is the outdoors columnist for MediaNews Group. You can reach him at [email protected].

From that day on, my next goal in life was to learn more about Lake Erie bass, and I did. I realized as I grew older that Lake Erie was a literal fish farm for smallmouth bass. They had lots of forage ...

For once, all forces converged for the greatest morning of fishing smallmouth bass on March 29 on the Chicago lakefront.

The fish took its own sweet time, as smallmouth bass will sometimes do ... runs through national forest and broad mountain valley farm fields, where the ledges that undergird the Blue Ridge ...

Of all the different ways to catch bass, jerkbaits like the Rapala X-Rap and Jackall Rerange dominate pre-spawn smallmouth fishing as one of my all-time favorites. / Photo by Mike Staggs Bass ...

Smallmouth bass just lost one of their favorite places to spawn in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam, according to a ...

Others can’t get enough of smallmouth erupting ... jolt after strip striking into a bass—whether it’s a bucketmouth sucking down a hairy bug in a farm pond or a bronzeback shooting out ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. – The 3½-pound smallmouth bass smacked a tube jig on his very first cast, and during one stretch on this picture-perfect September day, it looked as if Ben Barrus might ...