Hellgrammites make great live baits when you can find them. When most people think of live bait, nothing comes to mind faster than the garden worm. A big, fat, squirmy one will catch almost any fish ...

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 ...

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...

Live bait isn’t just a technique for beginners. A fluttering minnow or chunk of nightcrawler at the end of the line can be one of the most effective means of fishing at this time of year.

The process of catching, ­transporting and curing live bait is a time-consuming and ­laborious task, but the results of ...