Call it fishing for a good cause. A series of fishing derbies and festivals have sprung up across Oregon with a singular goal: getting smallmouth bass out of the river. While they’re a popular ...

Local fishing options are much improved. Longtime Umpqua River anglers are reporting the best shad fishing in decades and the river’s smallmouth bass fishing is also exceptionally good. Since Sunday, ...

ELKTON, Ore. (AP) - Katelyn Rolen's right finger releases its grip on the lower lip of a 13-inch smallmouth bass, sending the fish tumbling back into the Umpqua River as she reaches for her clicker.

After a great trip to Ft. Klamath, Oregon for trout, host Chad Foster heads right up the road to Roseburg and the Umpqua River to try his luck for smallmouth bass. While the Umpqua is generally known ...

Bill Logan swears by crawfish patterns that share one common element weight. To get the fly down in the troughs and rubble where the crawfish live until eaten by smallmouth, he wraps .025 lead the ...