I set a minnow trap baited with chicken breast to see if it could attract and catch crawfish. Now it’s time to check the trap and see what showed up. Sometimes the simplest bait can bring surprising ...

At Santa Cruz Reservoir, Alex Morton from Santa Fe and his friend caught their limits of rainbow trout trolling using crawfish-pattern crankbaits on Dec. 1. … Anthony Furneri of Santa Fe caught his ...

Like most anglers of my generation, I started my fishing career using live bait. My first catch was a brook trout that gobbled a garden worm on a long-ago first day of trout season. And while my first ...