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 ...

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 ...

Back to our discussion of live bait. We talked about worms and minnows, but there are other live baits that can be effective. I’ve not seen mud puppies for sale in any bait shops since 1990. Mud ...

Welcome to today's winter episode of Thundermist Fishing Tips! We have Vincenzo with us today, along with the boatless angler himself, Antonio. Today we're going to be running the T-Turn Bait Rig ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Carrie Ruud, R-Breezy Point, recently introduced a bill that she carried in 2017 to allow the import of baitfish from outside Minnesota. Current law prohibits the import of live minnows and ...

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 ...