Let’s face facts: fishing this summer has been a real challenge. Water temps simply did not get into the normal ranges during the summer and once the days started to get shorter in August, the weather ...

Fishing hooks are a critical component in any fishing setup, yet they’re all too often overlooked. No matter how expensive your rod and reel setups are, without proper hooks fish are going to get away ...

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 we last met, we were talking about live bait. I agree with live bait users that this is one of the best things you can use to tempt fish to take a whack at what’s on your hook. Live bait works.

I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

The expert anglers at Milliken Fishing reveal what backyard live bait fishing shows about water depth. Unity wins out as ...

Rigging live bait the right way will pay off. George Poveromo Rigging baitfish for saltwater gamefish is like a science. Anglers fish in so many different conditions: prime ocean with features for ...

New York's DEC recommends banning live bait fish in most Adirondack waters to protect brook trout from invasive species that ...

With sheepshead season still in ramp-up mode, an obvious question: How has the widespread use of circle hooks changed the dynamics of catching the toothy and tasty shell-cruncher? Turns out, there is ...

Local lakes and ponds saw a quick change from the summer fishing to the fall fishing this year, thanks to record rains in August and September. Water temperatures dropped from the mid 80s into the ...