What’s the best bait for trout? It’s a tough question, and that’s a good thing. Today’s trout fisher has a wide range of store-bought trout bait—along with trout lures and trout spinning reels—to ...

Hello folks! Today we're out here with the Boatless Angler himself, and we're fishing Lake Ontario close to the mouth of the Niagara River, trolling in about 20 feet of water. When fishing out here in ...

Striped bass are prowling the south half of the lake. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends fishing in the Prairie Creek area and farther south into the White and War Eagle river tributaries. The ...

It’s Trout Season Eve and and all through the Valley eager anglers are getting baits handy. Tackle shops in Harmar and Tarentum, the only two in the Alle-Kiski Valley south of Kittanning, say they ...

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 ...

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, ...

Trout season opens at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 6, in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and that means it’s time for anglers to take stock of their fishing tackle and bait or lure options. For some ...

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 ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has raised 3.2 million trout for the statewide opening season Saturday. That's 2.3 million rainbow trout; 707,000 brown trout; and 168,000 brook trout. In ...

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