I've heard the great lakes.


I've heard the Umpqua, and Columbia in Oregon.



I've caught a piles of them in SD




Any other great spots I haven't heard of?

John day river flowing into the the Columbia ...... Oregon

The Susquehanna river in Pa. I've caught many many over 6pounds and a few over 7
But they were all caught in January and February

The best small mouth fishing in the US is probably in West Virginia. I have some distant cousins, from West Virginia, who regularly post pictures of large numbers of fantastic sized small mouth bass.

Keith

Great Lakes , Hands down ! Bob

The St. Lawrence River . Bass Masters really think so

The New river in VA...

Eastern basin of Lake Erie is top notch
So plentiful and large most treat them as a trash species getting in the way of walleye and perch fishing

little and big bays de-noc ,on northern lake michigan

Door County, WI Green Bay fisheree! Go for smallmouths, walleyes, world class muskies all in one day!

It would be hard to beat the Chamequan Bay, Lake Superior for numbers of large fish. South Lake on the BWCA, for sheer numbers, literally a smallie on every cast, every day.

Mille Lacs Lake in Central Minnesota is pretty amazing for monster smallies, Green Bay and for sheer numbers, some of the lakes in the Quetico National Forest can be a fish on every cast.

Mille Lacs Lake in Central Minnesota is pretty amazing for monster smallies, Green Bay and for sheer numbers, some of the lakes in the Quetico National Forest can be a fish on every cast.

The Juniata River near Mexico, PA.

I have run a few people on Mille Lacs and it was special indeed late last fall. Our member James was on that water last September and I don’t think they did real well, I was surprised. Hit and miss like any other water?
That lake would still be one of the top on my list.
Osky

I have fished Mille Lacs, Green Bay, the Susquehanna River, Dale Hollow Lake, Lake St. Clair etc etc

The best small mouth fishing for size and quantity of that size is on the St Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. You can catch lots of big ones. Fished a college derb there and our best 5 went something like 22 pounds. We caught 20 pounds the next day for a 2 day total of 42 pounds. We came in 80 something place

Lake Erie would be near the top of my list. I've seen large numbers of monster fish come off the deep reefs on that lake as well as some huge incidentals caught by steelhead and walleye fishermen.
There used to be a widely repeated theory that the next record fish was going to come out of Lake Erie.

Yup,,we get some good ones here in Lake Ontario.Boat launch is ten minutes from my house.

Sturgeon Bay and Mille lacs.

Lake Oahe We caught a 5lb 15oz that was 21inches last summer and plenty of others.