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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays ...

After countless summers pulling up traps on his family farm, which harvests 300,000 pounds of crawfish a day, David Vercher knows full well how unforgiving the work can be. Crawfishers operate boats ...

KAPLAN, La. — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...