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.

FISHING — Nightcrawlers instinctively burrow down for safety, requiring anglers to dig down through dirt in their bait containers for find the next worm bound for the hook. Save time by setting your ...

We're baited up with the T-Turn Pre-Tied Bait Rig, model number 1A fishing for panfish. Taking advantage of the water current ...

I’ve talked to you all before about the effectiveness of using live bait when you are fishing. Please realize that the key word in this subject is “live.” Keeping your bait alive and lively is ...

LIVE BAIT is cheating. If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it 10,000 times. The level of cheating, of course, varies by species and age. Any child under 15 can use live bait for whatever he or she wants.

Today we're running with live bait (live minnows) on a dual T-Turn bait rig, and we're fishing for lake trout! These T-Turn ...

During the cold, winter months, the most used and accessible live bait is the mud minnow. This is a bait that doesn't seem to be affected by cold-water temperatures. You don't have to thumb or shake ...

Years ago friends and I zipped away from a boat ramp at a North Florida lake during a cool, sunny and windy spring dawn that left little doubt we were in for a tough day of bass fishing. We were in ...

John Mead was in need of a quick fix, but the action was hot, and he didn’t want to venture too far. So Mead, of Catasauqua, fed seven quarters into a nearby vending machine , pulled out a cold white ...