Live-baiting for marlin can often produce bites from the biggest blues and blacks in the neighborhood. This is important if you’re fishing in a tournament where catching numbers of smaller fish on ...

Lures and dead bait will fool game fish on a regular basis, but there’s no substitute for the real thing. Few species will pass up a frisky live bait: It’s an incredibly effective technique for ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...

This story first ran in the Aug. 25, 2006, edition of The Times-Picayune. It looked like rain would beat sunrise to the marsh Monday morning. Low, black clouds crawled slowly across the sky, carrying ...

BAFFIN BAY — Saltwater action seekers hooking into some of the best speckled trout battles of the year are turning to a bait that has a well-deserved reputation of giving anglers an almost unfair ...

Whether fishing the Indian River Lagoon or along the beaches, the pompano action was about ass good as it could get early in the week. While warming water temperatures may have pushed the fish back to ...