Almost every angler started out as a cut-bait fisherman. If you chop it, slice it, or behead it and then stick it on a hook, it qualifies as cut bait, including those nightcrawlers you ripped to ...

The crankbait landed exactly where I had caught largemouth bass before – a few cranks of the handle and a vicious strike nearly pulled me out of the boat. The fish was powerful, surging left and right ...

I’ve long enjoyed fishing for bowfins, grass carp, drum and gar in Arkansas lakes and rivers. Many people lump these fish under the negative label “roughfish,” a term in which the word “rough” means ...