Employing frisky live bait indigenous to the water fished is almost always the most effective way to catch fish in fresh and saltwater. Bait shops do a good job of providing live baitfish or shrimp to ...

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 ...

On a fishing boat near Sugar Island in the Detroit River — With the morning sun beating down on him, John Cleveland reeled in a northern pike using a Hot Mackerel Dardevle spoon. At 24 inches, the ...

If you grew up fishing and happen to be a child of the '90s, you likely owned a Banjo Minnow kit, because the infomercial pushing them ran on every channel that aired fishing shows—and even some that ...

The striped bass bite is good in Buzzard’s Bay, on the Cape Cod Canal, in Narragansett Bay, off Block Island and along the southern coastal shore of Rhode Island. “Customers are catching keeper bass, ...

As with most things in fishing, there are no hard and fast rules. But as a basic guideline, if you use more active lures such ...