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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sailfishing has been the top offshore fish this past week. A few nice kingfish have shown up along the reef and mahi, out of nowhere, have been grabbing baits intended ...

We've got Tony and Antonio, the boatless angler with us today. Today we're out in the saltwaters vertical jigging with artificial bait tipped boa jig'rs. The boa jig'r is a special vertical jig ...

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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_We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › For most anglers, it all started with a worm, a bobber, and a hook. From there, many ...

Weather changes from cold to warm mean fishing can be tough one day, better the next. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said stripers are biting best from Horseshoe Bend Park upstream into the White and War ...