While stocked trout are generally eager to hit the enormous array of lures, flies, dough-type bait, worms, minnows and the like available in outdoor stores and baits, a change-up for something ...

The consistency of moist Play-Doh, packed with assorted scents, perhaps flecked with glitter and coming in a rainbow of colors, dough baits are a trout angler’s go-to bait. The advantages of ...

It's dawn, and you're camped at a small creek in the Sierra Nevada foothills, just south of Mammoth, a few hours from the chaos of Los Angeles.

The bait drifted a couple seconds into the hold before a trout swirled on it and the Hershey man hooked his sixth of the 2016 trout fishing season, which had started less than a half-hour earlier ...