Missouri: Gasconade River Smallmouth Bass The Gasconade River runs for 280 miles completely inside the borders of Missouri. It’s known as a top smallmouth bass fishing river in the state.

That’s 25 percent of all fish species in North America. Those fishing in the river could pull out northern pike, walleye, long-nosed gar, flathead and channel catfish, lake and shovelnose ...

The author with a striped bass hooked on a prior fishing trip. Striper fishermen Roger Zalucky, left, of Troy, and Jack Whitman of Colonie both hook into fish while wading the Hudson River Friday ...