Bob McNally

1 week ago | wired2fish.com | Bob McNally

Michigan’s catch-and-release fishing season runs year-round, but Michigan anglers Steve Schwartz and Tom Remington know that the right time to try for heavyweight pre-spawn smallmouths is the first weekend in May in the state’s Upper Peninsula. “We’ve been fishing the same inland lake for 14 years,” Schwartz told Wired2Fish. “The lake is big and windy, cold and deep, and not too far from Lake Michigan. But I’m not gonna reveal its name, because it’s too consistently good to share that info.

1 week ago | outdoorlife.com | Bob McNally

Before dawn on April 19 Daniel Maness and his good friend Chris Morris were owl-hooting on a hunt club where Maness had seen turkeys during deer season. The club sat on 300 acres in west-central North Carolina’s Chatham County. “I’m new to turkey hunting, but Chris was showing me how it’s done,” Maness tells Outdoor Life. “He owl hooted a couple times, and we had gobblers answer right away.”The young hunters headed 50 yards toward the gobbling birds, which they guessed were only 100 yards away.

1 week ago | wired2fish.com | Bob McNally

North Carolina biologists are afraid that pure-strain native smallmouth, spotted and largemouth bass populations in North Carolina are being degraded and eliminated by invasive Alabama bass – creating a cautionary tale for other states nationwide. “We’re concerned that our pure-strain smallmouth bass fishery in North Carolina soon could be gone – especially in the mountain rivers and lakes,” says Kin Hodges, a state fisheries biologist for 29 years.

1 week ago | wired2fish.com | Bob McNally

Will Lutes, of Akron, got a call last month from a good buddy. His pal had just learned about a relatively small and mostly unknown lake south of Akron that was rated the top bass and bluegill spot in Ohio by the state fisheries department. “My fishing buddy, Jacob Middleton, wanted to know if I’d ever been on Nimisila,” Lutes told Wired2fish.

1 week ago | wired2fish.com | Bob McNally

Kyle Danhausen of Kankakee, Ill. launched his Ranger bass boat into Lake Michigan shortly after daybreak on April 24 at Chicago’s downtown Burnham Harbor. He started fishing an area he knows well in about 20 feet of clear water not far from the ramp. He was alone, but other small boats were nearby with anglers casting for bass.