Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Live Bait Fishing”
I love all things fishing, whether it’s chasing smallmouth in the spring, muskies in the fall, or slab crappie through the ice – it’s all good to me. Growing up just outside of Chicago my early fishing experiences were on the banks of local rivers and ponds where I targeted drum, carp, and catfish. As I got older my fishing …
Using live bait is about the closest anglers can come to guaranteeing they will catch panfish on any given day. Savvy anglers can tie on their favorite artificial fly or soft plastic drenched in the smelliest, oiliest fish scent and catch plenty of panfish, but the real deal produces more often than the imitations in most instances. Minnows, worms, crickets, and crayfish …
Figuring out live bait rigs seems like a simple task. Just stick a wiggly worm or a lively minnow on a hook and let the bait do the rest to catch a variety of gamefish. However there are rigging tricks savvy anglers use to make their live bait presentations more appealing and natural looking to the predator fish. Here are five …
