Recent content by Ryan Smart

Like a lot of the other posts, I generally use an 7wt or 8wt for bass. Nearly all of my bass fishing is for smallmouth, and has mostly been in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario so the heavier rod is nice when a pike or musky decides to eat my bass fly.

I had to be in Colorado Springs this week for work, so traveled a day early and hit the Dream Stream on Saturday afternoon. It's still winter at 8500 feet!

The Inland NW got hit pretty well this week too, Silver Mountain was fun today.

As someone who grew up in Minnesota and had spent most of my life in the upper Midwest before moving west a few years ago, all the discussion of ice fishing and driving on ice is interesting. Obviously ice fishing is very popular there, and with 4-6 months of frozen water, the other...

I had an 8wt Mojo Bass for several years and normally fished a bass/pike floating line on it. That said, when fishing from a boat, I pretty much always also had my 7wt streamer rod with a sink tip line available too so I could cover multiple depths of water. The Mojo Bass was great for making...

A mix of PNW fish, Montana, Minnesota, and Ontario