I'm going to be doing one my favourite things today - fishing for perch! I'm using the T-Turn Bait Rig baited with live minnows and pitch casting in a fan around me while searching for the perch.

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...