RIDGEWAY, Colo. (KREX) — This year’s Ridgway Reservoir Smallmouth Bass Classic, which has been running for 10 years, will open on Saturday, July 5 at 1 a.m. at Ridgway State Park’s reservoir and will ...

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A destructive predator has invaded Colorado, and a volunteer army is trying to defeat it. With fishing poles. At the Ridgway Reservoir Smallmouth Bass Classic, Western Slope anglers are competing to ...

From smallmouth bass fishing boatless to boating in the rain. We were using the Stingeye spinners while wading out in the ...

Lake Erie, Dale Hollow Lake, and the St. Lawrence River are just a few locations in the U.S. that grow giant smallmouth. These are iconic places to fish, but to truly be effective on those waters, you ...

The estimated smallmouth populations in the Colorado and Gunnison rivers exploded following that drought year — even as the total number of fish in the rivers dropped. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

At Aspen Journalism — an independent, nonprofit, investigative newsroom based in the Roaring Fork Valley — we’ve been covering water policy and politics in the headwaters basins of Colorado since 2011 ...

If you read my articles then you know that a month ago I went sturgeon fishing with Hammer Down River Excursions but we also caught quite a few smallmouth bass. We had an awesome trip, so much so that ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. On July 1, 2022, a National Park Service biologist named Jeff Arnold was hauling nets through a slough off the Colorado River, several miles ...

On July 1, 2022, a National Park Service biologist named Jeff Arnold was hauling nets through a slough off the Colorado River, several miles downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, when he captured three ...