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 ...

During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...

Hello folks, today is a great day. It's the first day we're able to get back out onto the (non-frozen) water - and boy did we have a great day! We geared up with our trusty flexi-jigs with artificial ...

Winter tactics are the best way to catch black bass, said Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Good wintertime bass lures include jerk baits, Alabama rigs, jig and pigs and crank baits. Top ...

This story, “Getting the Bait’s a Bail,” appeared in the May 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. The morning sparkled as bright and shiny as a new dime. The river was clear and purling along, its voices ...

During the past 20 years, the bait-stand price of juvenile croaker has doubled, more or less. A dozen of these mostly summertime baits for speckled trout has gone from $6 retail to as high as a dollar ...

Like most trout anglers on Saturday – opening day of the 2022 trout fishing season – I will be carrying 5 to 10 times the number of lures and baits that I actually will cast into the water. If I was ...