ShareWhile fishing the Mineral Fork in Washington County on Saturday, my father remarked repeatedly how beautiful the landscape and clear the creek is.
“Dad, this is why I fish,” I said.
He’s relatively new to Missouri and very new to the creek fishing many of us enjoy in the Ozarks. It has taken me quite some time [...]

ShareA few issues back, Traveler raised the question in this space of whether the Missouri Department of Conservation is doing enough to improve smallmouth bass fishing in the state. What prompted the question was an MDC White Paper recommending eight new stream stretches totaling 249.3 miles for new [...]

ShareBy Bob Todd

I was trying to come to terms with the words, “world class smallmouth.” So went to Wilson Dam in Alabama, which advertises itself as the world capital of smallmouth bass.
Indeed, the claim may be well-founded. I photographed a 5-1 and a 4-14 in a 24 hour period. The 4-14 was taken by my [...]