Live, artificial baits work for hookups as temps rise - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

The mission was to catch one of the most elusive fish in the area, the clown knifefish. Using live shiners as bait, we targeted a pond known to hold these rare predators. After several attempts, the ...

1. In Lakeland, across the area, quite a few bass were caught using shiners, while some have had luck using pearl and white soft plastics for trailers on chatter bait. The speck bite on lakes Juliana, ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. In Lakeland, the bluegill and shellcracker bite has turned on at Lake Parker near the docks. Try using red worms and crickets. Black-and-blue soft plastic bait has been good for bass at Saddle ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - It's the bait that catches fish. Walleyes particularly. Better than a fathead, a golden shiner flashes in the water, attracting predators big, small and in between. But a shiner ...