If there is one thing I’ve learned from the live-bait guys in South Florida, it’s the importance of keeping your bait healthy. No matter what species you are fishing for, or what method you use, the ...

Minnesota is known for having a diverse outdoor heritage. This diversity includes unpleasant items like summer mosquitoes and bitter winters. However, it also includes the great sport of fishing. When ...

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 ...

When it comes to catching large numbers of panfish, it's impossible to beat a chunk of nightcrawler (or maybe a cricket) hanging under a bobber. But when you're throwing live bait for panfish, you're ...

During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...

From now until autumn, one of the most productive ways to catch fish is with a live-bait rig. Live-bait rigs are simple set-ups, but they’re effective much of the time. Whether you’re after walleyes, ...

Anglers catch more walleyes on live bait than with hardware, but learning which live bait rigs to use at which times is important. Basic rigs include jigs in sizes 1/8-, 1/4- and 3/8-ounces.

Spinner rigs, ’crawler harnesses, whatever you want to call them, in many situations they excel in catching summertime walleyes. For those unfamiliar, a typical walleye spinner rig consists of two ...

Jackson Olson, 11, of Grand Forks, shows off packages of his hand-tied spinners and live bait rigs Monday, March 7, 2022. A fifth-grader at Kelley Elementary in Grand Forks, Olson is marketing the ...

No matter if it’s baseball, football or any other sport, participants constantly change and improve different aspects of the game. Competitive offshore fishing is no exception — one could sit and ...