Anglers from all over America are headed to Dixon Lake in Southern California. This after news spread on the Internet that a casino worker named Mac Weakley had reeled in a 25-pound largemouth bass — ...

Bass fisherman Joshua Buller caught one of the heaviest black bass in Oregon history on April 27. Buller’s spotted bass weighed a little more than 9 pounds, just 2 pounds shy of the all-tackle world ...

The International Game Fish Organization (IGFA), which keeps fishing world records, has made significant changes to its record-keeping categories for bass. The organization recently announced that it ...

This past summer, the IGFA reviewed new findings published in the American Fisheries Society journal, which focused on genetic distinctions among black bass species. Following this research, the IGFA ...

James Britenbaugh of Pennsylvania broke the New York state largemouth bass state record with his 12-pound, 6-ounce monster from Cayuga Lake. Photo courtesy of NYSDEC The news of the lunker black bass ...

In this edition of The Starting Spot: -A new state record bass was recently certified as the state record for Tennessee. Unfortunately, Alabama bass are considered an invasive species in Tennessee and ...

Angler Caleb Bell with his state-record Alabama bass. The fish weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces. Officials in Tennessee certified a new state-record bass Friday after confirming the species in a lab. And ...

It's no surprise that a fish caught near sod banks, beach shorelines, piers, jetties or nearshore bunker schools is fanatically popular. The anadromous striped bass is an all-time favorite for any ...

Thomas Russell and his long-time fishing partner and cousin Eric Sullivan were targeting smallmouth on Cayuga Lake when they hooked into the biggest smallmouth bass ever caught in New York state. The ...

Pennsylvania bass angler Jim Brittenbaugh trailered his 21-foot Stratos bass boat five hours from his home earlier this week to west-central New York’s Cayuga Lake. He went there to practice fish on ...

Mackenzie Hickox was only 11 years old when she set the female junior-angler record while fishing with her parents, her sister, and a friend from the shore of a man-made pond near her house. She used ...

MONTPELIER — If Andrew Oestringer had brought his bass to a certified scale before filleting the fish, he would probably hold a new state record. “It’s rare but not unheard of for anglers who plan to ...