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 ...

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.

We’re not here to take sides. We’re not here to end the debate forever. We are, however, here to say that there are times when rigging with bait—either live or dead—will outfish artificial lures, even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to today's winter episode of Thundermist Fishing Tips! We have Vincenzo with us today, along with the boatless angler ...

For years, saltwater anglers have known the benefits of fishing with multiple bait rigs. The spreader rig or umbrella rig allows the fisherman to present multiple artificial baits at one time and on ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Fishing Finatics in Everett, Pete said there’s been a good striped bass bite off Revere, Nahant and Winthrop beaches. He suggests trolling the shoreline in 8 to 10-feet of water with Santini ...