Looking beyond worms and shiners, there are a number of "sleeper" live baits that anglers should pay attention to.

I was mowing the grass this past weekend, and I saw them for the first time this year: crickets — a yard full of the small black, jumping insects. This reminded me of two things. One, fall is rapidly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays ...

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A hot-button subject in the world of fishing is the use of live bait. I’m talking about minnows, worms, leeches and all of the other critters that fishermen use to try to coax an unwary fish into ...

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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 ...