Today we're fishing for walleye using one of our favourite methods - live bait, minnows. We're on the Niagara River, and 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 Bait Rigs come pre-rigged with fluorocarbon line, a snap, and two T-Turns ...

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Like most anglers of my generation, I started my fishing career using live bait. My first catch was a brook trout that gobbled a garden worm on a long-ago first day of trout season. And while my first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. In Lakeland, specks are loving minnows with a lot of action being seen on lakes Hollingsworth, Mattie and Gibson. Shiners have produced nice-sized bass at Saddle Creek. Lake Wire has seen an active ...