During the cold, winter months, the most used and accessible live bait is the mud minnow. This is a bait that doesn't seem to be affected by cold-water temperatures. You don't have to thumb or shake ...

A few days later I went all in. Anticipating two more days of fishing with extended family, I was determined to test hot dogs ...

Across the country, the quiet act of scooping minnows or grabbing a tub of nightcrawlers is colliding with a... The post The ...

Today we're running with live bait (live minnows) on a dual T-Turn bait rig, and we're fishing for lake trout! These T-Turn ...

Fishing season is almost here in Minnesota — but bait shops across the state are having trouble finding enough minnows. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, minnow harvests fell ...

BRAINERD, Minn. – For hundreds of bait shops across Minnesota, Urbank Live Bait Co. in Otter Tail County is ground zero for minnows. So, it wasn't good news last week when owner Marshall Koep said his ...

WILLMAR - Minnows and leeches are nearly ubiquitous fishing tools in Minnesota, and they’re a fiercely regulated natural resource - those who harvest and sell them must be licensed, undergo aquatic ...

Alan Bland shows a Beaver Lake crappie he caught May 2 from the Pine Creek arm on the upstream end of the reservoir. The fish ...

There’s more to the small, tin-sided building just off Interstate 94 than leeches, though. Andy, his wife, Sam, and three children also sell live minnows, frozen shrimp, maggots and night crawlers to ...

Are you new to minnow fishing? What are the types of game fishing that you can catch? First of all, understand that it’s not always the bait that will determine what fish you can catch (though baiting ...

WIILLMAR, Minn. -- A 65-year-old Minnesota man and a 67-year-old Minnesota bait shop owner have been charged with violations of the state’s laws regulating the trapping and selling of minnows. Jack W.