CLINTON — The service is the bait here. What’s up with that? Possession Point Bait Co. owner Dan Cooper slogs through the water in chest waders to hand deliver-buckets of live herring to boaters. Or ...

Live bait has quietly become one of the most contentious flashpoints in freshwater policy, with animal rights advocates, ...

Across the country, the quiet act of scooping minnows or grabbing a tub of nightcrawlers is colliding with a... The post The ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

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 ...

Rigging baits while on the fishing grounds is an inevitable part of every fishing trip, and on Booby Trap, we use this simple bucket system for rigging swordfish baits. For a secure base and working ...

Crabs and lobsters are drawn to a totally synthetic bait, which could reduce the large take of live baitfish from the sea When commercial fishers set off to trap blue crabs, they bring along buckets ...