Live bait has quietly become one of the most contentious flashpoints in freshwater policy, with animal rights advocates, conservation groups, and the sportfishing industry all trying to define what ...

Some of the best fish foods you can cast out might require you to collect them yourself or find a regional shop that carries harder-to-find baits. There might even be a few species on this list that ...

From tailraces below dams to vast reservoirs, here’s how to find, target, and land trophy striped bass across the Southeast. Being from New England I had never experienced freshwater striped bass ...

This 11-foot, 6-inch white sturgeon from British Columbia’s Fraser River might be the largest ever caught on rod and reel. Courtesy Sturgeon Slayers There are big fish, and then there are giant fish.

Opening Day of the freshwater fishing season in Rhode Island is Saturday, April 13, at 6 a.m. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has stocked more than 60,000 brook, brown, rainbow ...

Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have pro­duced stringers of game fish for decades, and they’ll continue to produce ...

1. In Lakeland, speck limits were being caught on lakes Mattie, Crago and Tenoroc with the biggest being nearly 2 pounds. Pink jig heads are working the best. Medium domestic shiners were good for ...