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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 ...

When we last met, we were talking about live bait. I agree with live bait users that this is one of the best things you can use to tempt fish to take a whack at what’s on your hook. Live bait works.

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

Today we're running live minnows on the T-Turn Bait Rig which comes pre-tied as we fish for yellow and white perch. It's late ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Volunteer Mike Sypniewski, of Wilkes-Barre, left, and Joe Burkardt, of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, load brook and brown trout into a bucket for stocking at Nescopeck State Park on ...

The long weekend finally is here, the mid-elevation lakes and reservoirs are ready for boating, and there's no reason not to spend a day or more at your favorite fishing hole. Anglers new to Colorado ...

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