LIVE BAIT is cheating. If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it 10,000 times. The level of cheating, of course, varies by species and age. Any child under 15 can use live bait for whatever he or she wants.

The author with a 47-inch striper caught off North Jersey on a 10-inch Stride glide bait. Photo by Joe Cermele Though the official timeline is a bit hazy, many anglers point to the swimbait revolution ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

My first fishing experience, like that of many anglers, involved a worm on a hook suspended under a bobber. To this day this is still an effective method of catching fish. Live bait of many types ...

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 ...

Generally, we beat back that beastly idea with a small piece of bank-issued plastic: If you think you need two dozen shrimp, you buy three. Hell, maybe four. A few hours later, you’re packing up the ...