It’s a smorgasbord straight out of the television show Fear Factor – butterworms, grubs, fathead minnows, mealworms and nightcrawlers. It doesn’t sound appetizing, but for a trout the live baits ...

Local trout streams The water level has come up on many streams, but it continues to be clear. Bait fishermen should use small trout worms and salted minnows. Continue to concentrate on the holes. Fly ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. With anglers back on the water for the fishing season that opened May 9, some may ...

Chris Overmyer wants to put the sparkle back in fishermen's bait buckets. He's not alone along Ohio's expansive Lake Erie shoreline. Emerald shiner minnows, a native of Lake Erie, are by far the most ...

Local trout streams The water level has come up on many streams, but it continues to be clear. Bait fishermen should use small trout worms and salted minnows. Continue to concentrate on the holes. Fly ...

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 ...

Minnesota has a minnow problem. As winter loosens its icy grip and anglers count down the days until the celebrated fishing opener on May 13, the state’s bait dealers are concerned there won’t be ...

The fishing is great, but the bait sparks debate. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's restrictions on live and preserved baits, imposed to help control of aquatic diseases and ...

On a recent visit to Saul’s Minnow Farm in DeValls Bluff, I watched as workers in waders pulled long seines through the facility’s ponds to catch some rather unusual baitfish. Often called pink ...

Blake’s Baits in Ilion, The Bait Shop in Bouckville, and Fite da Bite on Mohawk Street in Utica responded to our recent request for purveyors of live bait. Blake’s Baits at 359 Otsego Street (Rt. 51) ...