Reach into your bait freezer, grab five bags of small ballyhoo and a pack of mackerel, dip a bucket in salt water, plop the frozen yellow bricks into your bucket, admire your vast sticker collection, ...

With smelt imported from Peru, squid from China and sardines from Oman, the bait business has certainly taken on an international flavor. "There was a time not too long ago we could get most of what ...