A smallmouth bass caught with a popper on the Greenbrier River in WV. / photo by Chase McCoy If you've never fished for smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you are missing out on a great game fish.

The whole bass fishing community should ... Now you're into Lower Saranac and its classic-looking northern smallmouth waters — lots of boulders, sunken islands and rocky banks.

It might have been when I asked him why the Illinois Department of Natural Resources had a put a broad and confusing no-take regulation for months on smallmouth bass in river systems, despite ...