As effective and revolutionary as a chatterbait is, it’s also very easy to learn how to fish it. Any angler can tie a chatterbait on, throw it out, simply reel it in with a steady retrieve and catch a ...

As live bait goes, it’s hard to beat crawfish for trout, bass, catfish, and more—yet they are wildly underused. That’s because it’s rare to find them for sale in bait shops. There are no commercial ...

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 ...