Channel catfish are prone to feed heavily during early spring, cleaning up small fish that died over the winter.

Maybe the better question is, what’s the best trout bait for the way (or ways) you like to fish? The big advantage of commercially made baits is scent. That appeal to trout’s olfactory sense ...

The main problem is that the live bait can have a variety of fungi, diseases and internal and external worms that can attack our native fish. Another exotic species is the zebra mussel ...