Armed with heavy gear and big bait, this beach fishing trip delivers non-stop excitement from the first cast. Every wave hides the chance for something huge, and the strikes come hard and fast. From ...

When you’re fishing for any pelagic species, it’s hard to beat healthy live bait, especially in South Florida where kite fishing is king. Merely catching enough bait for a single fishing trip can be ...

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 ...

Ballyhoo: the perfect bait. Just about everything that swims in the ocean eats ballyhoo, and they are plentiful, especially throughout the Florida Keys. Sold worldwide on the commercial market, the ...

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 ...

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.

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

A Harley or Corvette? Lacking those funds, maybe a new wardrobe or city-bought haircut? Steve Murray ventured from the cliché. Far, far from it. He bought a bait-and-tackle store. Hey, somebody has to ...

There’s a lot of truth in that, and Ike Leary is banking on it. Quite literally. Ike is watching a new Granada Pier Bait & Tackle go up outside a window of the bait shop he’s operated for more than 25 ...