Wax worms are probably the preferred live bait for ice anglers and are popular with some steelheaders, too, but they’re not always available everywhere. Enter DMF Bait Co. Although the Waterford-based ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.