Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have pro­duced stringers of game fish for decades, and they’ll continue to produce ...

Live bait has quietly become one of the most contentious flashpoints in freshwater policy, with animal rights advocates, conservation groups, and the sportfishing industry all trying to define what ...

Our live bait operations at our local harbors sell anchovies and sardines, but few people understand how the live bait gets there and ultimately into bait tanks aboard our fishing boats. Sportfishing ...

A group of neighborhood youngsters throw on their back packs, grab their fishing rods,jump onto their bicycles and begin the half-mile ride to their favorite fishing hole.Although this scenario plays ...

When you absolutely, positively have to catch a fish, live bait is the only way to go, period. While artificial lures are variously new, improved, or otherwise hyped worldwide, the lowly worm and its ...