Last winter, I got a call from my friend Ted Putnam, owner of Hawk Lake Lodge, who invited me to come up and explore his system of lakes known for their trophy smallmouth bass, northern pike, and walleyes. At the time, neither of us knew . . .
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Video: Top 5 Warmwater Flies for June 2019
In this month’s “Top 5” video from Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, General Manager Rick Mikesell offers his favorite patterns for chasing largemouth and smallmouth bass in late spring and early summer. It’s mostly a subsurface game in much of the . . .
Read MoreSpring Bonanza on Lake Powell
Nestled between the Arizona and Utah boaders, Lake Powell is the country’s second-largest man-made reservoir, behind Lake Mead. It was created by the Glen Canyon Dam–yes, the same dam responsible for such famous trout spots as Horseshoe Bend . . .
Read MorePro Tips: 5 Keys to Early-Season Smallmouth Success
Written by: Kip Vieth, Wildwood Float Trips
The author’s son, Truman, with a fine early-season bronzeback.
Photo by Kip Vieth
Winter is the time to dream of warm summer days spent drifting down Midwestern rivers and watching the country’s largest smallmouth bass attack poppers. Those are great images to. . .
Read MorePhotos and Video: Epic Early-Season Smallmouths in Ontario
Written by: Mark Melnyk, The New Fly Fisher
Big smallmouths gorge on baitfish–and surface flies–during the early season.
All photos courtesy The New Fly Fisher
We left the house at 5 a.m., sunroof open, windows wide. It was unseasonably warm for the middle of spring, and we were loving it. The sun beat down for the entire trip, the music was turned up, and the air of angling . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Fly-Fish for Bass
Back in August, we featured a cool profile of angler Jeff Currier in a Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, and here he offers some of his top tips for bass fishing with a fly rod. From choosing the right gear to casting big flies to making sure you land the . . .
Read MorePodcast: Late-Season Smallmouths, with Mike Schultz
Mike Schultz shows off a bruiser bronzeback.
Photo courtesy Mike Schultz
Do you stop fishing for smallmouth bass when summer ends? If you do, you could be missing the best bass fishing of the year and the chance at your biggest smallmouth. Mike Schultz–of . . .
Read MoreClassic Pro Tips: How to Rig for Smallmouth Bass
Photo by Kip Vieth
Kip Vieth, of Wildwood Float Trips, is known as a musky expert, but he has also written several posts about smallmouth bass. (See his Choosing the Right Fly Rod for Your Quarry is Vital to the Health of the Fishery and his. . .
Read MoreVideo: Michigan Smallmouths on the Flats
We don’t get nearly enough good videos about fly-fishing for smallmouth bass, so I’m always excited to find a new one. Filmmaker Dory Breaux and his buddy Parker Gondella headed to Michigan, . . .
Read MoreVideo: “A Trip into the Wild” of North Carolina
Here’s a cool film about a float trip down the French Broad River in North Carolina, targeting aggressive smallmouth bass on topwater flies. One of the anglers is DUN Magazine‘s Jen . . .
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