Today is the day to catch some crawfish. What bait works best for you when setting crawfish traps? Share your favorite bait ideas in the comments and help find the most effective way to catch more ...

A video of dead spiders found in a Louisiana TikToker's cooked crawfish boil went viral, causing some to question how it happened. Can spiders get mixed in with crawfish? Yes, but normally not that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri fish farmers and bait shops are asking the state Department of Conservation to reconsider a ban on selling live crawfish that goes into effect Sept. 1. Conservation ...