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Home > Learn to Fish & Boat > How To Fish > How to Fish with Live Bait
Fishing with live bait allows you to catch a wide variety of fish. The size and type of bait will also help determine which species you catch. Your local tackle shop will likely only stock live baits to suit the species common to the local waters.
Drifting can be a great method for fishing with live bait. Learn the basics of drifting.
This is one of the most common live bait techniques used to catch fish near the sea floor.
To live line, you simply have to know how to hook live bait, then allow it to swim freely.
When learning how to fish with live bait, chumming is an effective live bait technique.
Still fishing is one of the easiest live bait techniques you can use from a pier or bridge
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