Plenty of hefty smallmouth bass fall for crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and midsize swimbaits all along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. These more aggressive lures have their time and ...

As live bait goes, it’s hard to beat crawfish for trout, bass, catfish, and more—yet they are wildly underused. That’s because it’s rare to find them for sale in bait shops. There are no commercial ...

Catching nightcrawlers for bait is fun, especially when you get kids in on the game. Here's how to catch nightcrawlers.

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The closest thing to a guarantee of catching fish is to cast into an Ozark stream. Anglers don't usually catch one fish, but many fish from the flowing water. Normally they don't catch one kind of ...

The baitfish blitz Like many species, smallmouth gorge on big baitfish during late summer and fall. While active river smallies will hold near cover and ambush prey, this time of year you will also ...

Like most anglers of my generation, I started my fishing career using live bait. My first catch was a brook trout that gobbled a garden worm on a long-ago first day of trout season. And while my first ...

An angler was recently caught using an invasive gobies as live bait while he fished for out-of-season smallmouth bass with too many lines, officials said. The angler was using live gobies to fish for ...

Expertise, experience, and enthusiasm – that’s a formula for success when it comes to chasing Susquehanna smallmouth bass. It also doesn’t hurt to have a state-of-the-art bass boat tricked out to the ...