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 ...

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 ...

Fall is a great time to fish with wild minnows. Indigenous species of minnows trapped from local creeks, found within the same watershed being fished, are forage that gamefish are accustomed to ...

Stopping into a bait shop for a scoop of crappie minnows, shiners or fathead minnows is a Minnesota tradition. But supplying those bait shops has become increasingly more difficult as invasive species ...

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 ...

Golden shiners, a shimmering live bait favored by winter walleye anglers, are at the center of an escalating policy dispute between bait shops barred from importing the minnows and fisheries managers ...

As we move into the fall months, walleyes again switch their bait preferences. Where night crawlers and leeches were the preferred baits in the warm waters of summer, once water temperatures begin to ...

Four Wisconsin bait farmers plan to plead guilty to illegally importing fish from other states, a federal prosecutor said Thursday, after a lengthy investigation that started during an outbreak of a ...