Time to get into those jumbo Lake Erie perch! I've got my 1A T-Turn Bait Rig set up (the one designed for panfish) and live minnows on the hooks. Let's go over the set-up and get into those perch! How ...

What do I like to eat when I am going fishing, you ask? I usually pack a brown paper sack with a salami sandwich on white bread, a bag of chips, a stick or two of jerky and a bottle of Snapple. Uh ...

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 Lake Anna on a warm spring day, Bill Mathias and I slowly pumped our shiners back across a rough piece of deep ...

A hot-button subject in the world of fishing is the use of live bait. I’m talking about minnows, worms, leeches and all of the other critters that fishermen use to try to coax an unwary fish into ...

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 ...

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 ...

The walleye spawn that was put on hold in the Beaver tailwaters by the recent cold spell is heating up again with the return of warmer temperatures. "I had five walleye on the hook today," guide Roy ...

Hooking a minnow through the lips for ice fishing is quick, simple and does little harm, allowing the bait fish to move about naturally and attract game fish to strike. Credit: Courtesy of Bill Graves ...

Although all of the nearly 9,000 participants of the 33rd Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza presumably signed up to catch fish on one day in late January, most will tell you it’s really an ...