Think Smallie
Dark thoughts
Are you a night fisherman? If you're not, you're missing out on the very best smallmouth fishing of the summer.
More saving, more fishing
With the economy as tough as it's been lately, that means small stores are more willing to wheel and deal than ever before ... if you approach them right.
Never the same again
The earliest memories I have of smallmouth bass fishing are of the times I followed my father, wading up the creeks and streams of central Kentucky. We didn't have or need a boat.
One for the birds
If you've done much bass fishing, you've heard the old saying about following the birds to find the bass. Well, like most old sayings, it's partly true.
Four for right now
You may not know it, but right now is a great time to catch a giant smallmouth bass. My friend, the late Billy Westmoreland — the best smallmouth angler who ever lived — hooked the biggest smallmouth of his life on Christmas Day in the early 1970s.
Shake It Up, Baby
When a lot of anglers think of wintertime fishing, they think there are just a very few ways you can catch bass. But that's not exactly true
Old Yeller
It's been more than a year since I first revealed one of my favorite secret techniques for catching smallmouth bass in cold weather.If you're a regular reader of "Think Smallie," you know that I love jig fishing
Shad before 'dads in winter
When I'm smallmouth fishing in cold weather, you'll almost always see me using a shad imitation rather than a crawfish imitation. The reason is simple. Bass feed a lot more on shad when the water's cold than they do on crawfish.
More how and why on float-and-fly
First of all, we should cover the best time of year to use the float-and-fly. After years and years of using the method, I've determined that it works best whenever the water temperature is below 55 degrees.
Float-and-fly Q&A
It's getting to be that time of year — the time of year when I get asked lots of questions about float-and-fly fishing.
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