Spotted bass love crawfish like kids love candy. This season, if you go fishing for spots, or Kentucky bass as they’re often called, wrap your mind around that fact, and don’t let go. You can catch ...

During my younger years, I kept a 6-inch bass in an aquarium so I could monitor the fish's behavior and apply what I learned to my fishing strategies. I gained a ton of knowledge from that little bass ...

Come fall, a bass’ fancy turns to crayfish. Not that facsimiles of this tasty crustacean won’t catch bass throughout much of the year. But when the leaves turn brown, largemouth and smallmouth bass ...

Crayfish, aka crawdads, are a staple of bass diets in fresh waters in most of the mid-Atlantic area. Other fish eat them, too, as discussed below, and some streams owe their trophy brown trout to a ...

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 ...

Smallmouth bass have long been a favorite quarry of mine. Smallies are gnarly fighters, equally capable of airborne acrobatics and those line-peeling runs we all crave. And in Idaho, they are found in ...

When Geoff Smith checks the stomachs of bass to see what they’ve been eating, he mostly finds crayfish. Bass also will strike other invertebrates such as mayflies and dobsonfly larvae. They don’t shy ...

My biggest rainbow trout ever was taken on a live crayfish in the Little Lehigh during an early September morning some 30 years ago. As I recall, it went 23 inches. My wife’s biggest smallmouth bass ...

The crawfish couldn’t bite the hook like a fish would, but we had to have something to hold the shad on the line. We would drop the line in the water and within a minute, the rod tip would start to ...

In a large saucepan combine shallots, wine, peppercorns, and brandy, and reduce until almost all liquid is absorbed or has evaporated. Add cream and reduce by half, then whisk in butter a little at a ...

We demonstrate the importance of omnivory and the importance of sublethal predator effects in the dynamics of a littoral zone food web. Using outdoor tanks (1.8 m diameter, 0.4 m depth), we examined ...