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 ...

Jon Conklin, fishing guide from Goshen, said brood minnows or live shad are the best baits. Stripers are scattered on the northern one-third of the lake from Point 9 to Beaver Dam. Locate schools of ...

Striped bass are going for live bait. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends trolling for stripers between Prairie Creek and Rocky Branch parks. Shad or brood minnows are the best bait. Look for ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay bait trees with big live bait to catch giant catfish.

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Even normal-sized blue catfish, or Ictalurus furcatus, are big fish. Originally native to the basins of the Mississippi, ...

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 ...

What’s the best way to fish for catfish? Below are a few tips I have to offer. Catfish will eat almost anything, but the misconception is that they like rotten, stinking baits. That’s simply not true.

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