Most times, all you will have to do is bend back the hook and re-bait. Your best hook sizes are 2/0 or 1/0 hooks. Light wire also does less damage to your live bait and keeps it lively longer.

A stout, but low-profile hook like a No. 4 Gamakatsu G-Carp Specialist R gets the nod. Or, to help keep the dough from falling off the hook, try a dough holder hook which has wrapped wire that ...

8:36 a.m. On the second spot. More action on the whistle as the fish come up quick. I'm fishing with a six ounce sinker and two bait holder hooks on dropper loops. I'm sticking with clam bait.

The fishing hook is one of the most important pieces of equipment used in fishing. Unlike regular hooks, they’re designed with barbs to hold the bait in place so a fish can latch onto it.

It's a problem many anglers can relate to: getting bait onto your fishing rod safely, without rocking the boat. Sudbury's JR Paquette, who has been an avid fisherman for years, came up with an ...

Just like fishing in general, conditions in the bait industry have changed dramatically since his father, Bill and uncle, Fred, opened Spring Lake Freezer Co. in 1973.

That definitely could be the case at Burrell Lake Park on June 8, as kids 15 and younger are invited to bait a hook for the annual Kids’ Fishing Derby. Registration is 7:30-9 a.m., with free ...