One of the best fishing baits you can find is available now. You don’t find it in a bait and tackle shop, but on a specific tree. This bait is not available long and has a short window (maybe three ...

Two words can help Arkansas anglers shake off the mid-summer fishing blues: Catalpa worm. Experienced anglers with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission agree that catalpa worms are superb for fishing ...

Fishing with the caterpillar of the Catalpa Sphinx Moth. The use of the Catalpa Worm as fish bait may be as old as the American Indian groups who once populated Alabama. The caterpillar of the Catalpa ...

I was 14 or 15 old enough to be driving pre-license on the country roads we followed to our summer fishing holes when I caught my first fish on a catalpa worm. I had pulled that worm from a jar full ...

I grew up in a fishing world — hunting, too, to be honest — that was seriously focused on bringing home something to eat. People ran trotlines on the river and filled up ice chests with as many fish ...

Although I wrote about this phenomenon a few years ago, I’m revisiting the subject now because they have returned. The ‘they’ consists of masses of catalpa hornworms currently consuming the leaves of ...

If you’ve driven through the East Texas countryside lately, you’ve noticed spectacular white catalpa trees blooming. There are two native species of catalpa in America: Catalpa bignoniodes (southern ...

Quite some time ago I wrote a column here about catalpa worms the larval stage of the sphinx moth and how the life cycle is connected to the catalpa tree. I also wrote how these "worms," which feed on ...

Want to catch loads of fish? Try bugs for bait. Most fish like bugs the way kids love candy. Fish can’t resist these six-legged temptations and their larvae. Nice thing is, many bait bugs are free for ...

This story, “Getting the Bait’s a Bail,” appeared in the May 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. The morning sparkled as bright and shiny as a new dime. The river was clear and purling along, its voices ...

But now even bait has gone high tech. Including the lowly worm, that ground-boring little fish-getter you dug up as a kid. These days a worm is not merely a worm. The baits are specialized, for ...