Elwood said he set a new personal best for catching a smallmouth in the Potomac a week prior to the April 3 tournament, when he caught a 5-pound, 1-ounce smallmouth bass that was roughly 21 inches ...

The index for the number of young smallmouth bass collected during measurements this year averaged two. That is up from the average from 2008 to 2014, when the number came in at just less than 1 1 ...

This winter’s mild weather allows a host of open-water fishing options. Many exist in addition to what we have in our egion UPPER POTOMAC RIVER SMALLMOUTH BASS: The mention of smallmouth bass ...

Across the river, Joe Bruce held up a smallmouth Chuck Edghill was up to his chest in a deep hole, his spinning rod barely out of the water, bent with repeated catches of smallmouth bass and ...

In an effort to try to improve juvenile recruitment of smallmouth bass, the Freshwater Fisheries Program has begun piloting a smallmouth bass supplemental stocking program.

Since moving to Maryland 25 years ago, I have been interested in paddling and fishing the Paw Paw Bends section of the Potomac River between Paw Paw, West Virginia, and ...

Freshwater river anglers in Maryland and adjacent Virginia and West Virginia know that the DNR’s Fisheries Service started stocking 8-inch-long hybrid muskies in the Potomac in 1989 at the ...

A private citizen, Thad Norris, launched the spread in Pennsylvania in 1870. He bought 450 Potomac River smallmouth bass, moving them to and releasing them into the Delaware River near Easton.