LIVE BAIT is cheating. If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it 10,000 times. The level of cheating, of course, varies by species and age. Any child under 15 can use live bait for whatever he or she wants.

No artificial can match the effectiveness of bait while fishing for striped bass- but not all bait is created equal. Here are some bait-fishing tips, and my top picks, to help you catch more stripers ...

Boats turned right outside of Manasquan Inlet and surf casters hustled to the sandy beaches of Ocean County to get in on striped bass frenzy.

Trying to narrow down hundreds of striped bass lures to the top 25 is like trying to name the 25 best rock songs of all time. The list changes based on countless variables, like time, place, ...

This year’s recreational striped bass fishing season on the Hudson River kicked off April 1, with a new mandatory “in-line” circle hook regulation for those anglers fishing with bait scheduled to ...

Striped bass fishing continues to be good, reports Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Stripers are being caught 60 feet deep or deeper, he said. Best baits are brood minnows, shad or ...

Plugging the surf can produce big, brawny striped bass when packs of these voracious predators corral schools of baitfish against the beach. Nick Honachefsky Perhaps no other fishery commands such ...

Catfish and striped bass are plentiful on the Santee Cooper lakes at this time of year. Why choose one for fishing when you ...

The striped bass were in the bunker bait pods right outside of Manasquan Inlet making for more fall scenes of fish and bait blowing up on the surface.

Delta stripers, bass and sturgeon bites good, Alan Fong said. Don Pedro trout biting, Aaron Jones reported. Isabella bass and ...

The Jamaica party boat was offshore Saturday. Capt. Howard Bogan Jr. said they had to work a little harder for their catch ...

The ASMFC had proposed reducing striped bass mortality by 12% in order to meet its rebuild target goal of 247 million pounds of female spawning stock biomass by 2029. It currently sits at 191 million ...