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 ...

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 ...

Crawfish banners are springing up all across our state. If you had never heard of them, you might think crawfish are fish that crawl, but they are freshwater crustaceans, and a cousin to a lobster. I ...

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 ...

Anyone hoping to celebrate Mardi Gras with a piping hot crawfish boil this year may be out of luck -- or have to pay more than double what they’re used to. Crawfish farmers in south Louisiana -- an ...

Crawfish growers may look to the rain gauges or the temperature to forecast the supply end of the Louisiana harvest. But Jason Seither, who boils and sells tons of the mud bugs each year at his ...

Some of the best fish foods you can cast out might require you to collect them yourself or find a regional shop that carries harder-to-find baits. There might even be a few species on this list that ...