Over the past week, anglers have found good fishing for smallmouth bass. Night crawlers and plastics have been working well on the shelves. The bite will continue to improve as the fish move up with the warming waters in the shallows. Good coves to work are those where NDOW and its partners have installed artificial fish habitat structures. Double digit striped bass have been showing up south of Willow Beach with anglers having success using imitation hatchery trout swimbaits.