I'm out here on the eastern basin of Lake Erie with a bucket full of live minnows and a T-Turn Bait Rig made especially for catching perch and panfish. I bait up the rig with live minnows and talk ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you absolutely, positively have to catch a fish, live bait is the only way to go, period. While artificial lures are variously new, improved, or otherwise hyped worldwide, the lowly worm and its ...

We're out on the water at Windmill Point today with the T-Turn Bait Rig baited up with live minnows and fishing for yellow perch. We're slowly moving the minnows along the bottom to help entice those ...

Like many anglers, I used to enjoy ice fishing at Tongue River Reservoir. But after Montana put the kibosh on transporting minnows across state lines, I rarely ice fish there. Last week my son, Clint, ...

Striped bass are going for live bait. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends trolling for stripers between Prairie Creek and Rocky Branch parks. Shad or brood minnows are the best bait. Look for ...

Some anglers would rather feed 'em with live bait than fool 'em with lures. Give fish the real thing to catch them is the mantra for fans of live bait. Worms, nightcrawlers, minnows and assorted other ...

FARGO — We are in the middle of another statewide shortage. It's not eggs or toilet paper. This time it is minnows. The next time many live wells at local bait shops are currently empty. "You can see ...

Of all types of live bait, minnows, by far, are the most difficult to keep swimming. Fluctuations in water temperature, impurities in too little water, as well as the obvious expiration of oxygen, can ...