Hello folks, this week the boatless angler, Antonio, catches the biggest channel catfish of his fishing career! This shore-caught channel catfish weighed-in at approximately 30 pounds and took over 15 ...

Hello folks, this week we're on the shorelines baited up with tiny hooks and live worms as we catch the very tricky "sucker". We're rigged up with a simple Thunder Braid line, T-Turn, sinker, and hook ...

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 ...

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 ...

Live bait isn’t just a technique for beginners. A fluttering minnow or chunk of nightcrawler at the end of the line can be one of the most effective means of fishing at this time of year.

LOTS of the fishing techniques for using live bait for striped bass and bluefish seem to be not very well explained or get little or no use by those people that don't have the knowledge and experience ...

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A hot-button subject in the world of fishing is the use of live bait. I’m talking about minnows, worms, leeches and all of the other critters that fishermen use to try to coax an unwary fish into ...

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 ...

It’s a new year! Hopefully 2026 brings many new and exciting possibilities for all of us. One thing I would like to see ...

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