When you have monster fish to feed, you need serious bait—and this haul delivers. Watch as over a million minnows are netted ...

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 ...

There’s more to the small, tin-sided building just off Interstate 94 than leeches, though. Andy, his wife, Sam, and three children also sell live minnows, frozen shrimp, maggots and night crawlers to ...

Complicating the shortage is a Minnesota DNR requirement that minnow dealers who trap spottail shiners in waters designated as infested with zebra mussels must remove their gear by Monday, May 23.

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 ...