Accurately delivering bait into your swim is one of the most important skills you need to master when carp fishing. If you can get bait around your rig the chance of catching carp dramatically ...

Bank fishing may not hold the excitement of prowling the backwaters on a bass boat or drifting a dry ... both carp and catfish on the sweet-tasting concoction. A good basic carp bait is made ...

Photo courtesy Rowan Lytle Shallow mud flats that form when the water is up but are often high and dry during low tide are ... and effort for Lytle to pattern the carp on his home rivers, figuring out ...

To catch carp, cast out your bait, then prop your rod on a forked stick and wait for a bite. / Joe Shead Once you’re rigged up and you’ve got a spot, it’s time to fish! Carp fishing is a ...

Carp especially are known to congregate in water near low-hanging mulberry bushes, waiting for the fruit to fall. One expert fisherman from Alabama swears by golden raisins as bait. Particularly ...

Freshwater carp have proliferated at an epic scale in the Illinois River. (Courtesy of Madelyn Beck/Harvest Public Media) But one person's invasive species, it turns out, could be another's bait.

A proposed change would add the use of grass carp and common carp as live bait, per conservation officials. A public comment period is slated for March. The Missouri Conservation Commission gave ...