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 ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

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 ...

WILLMAR - Minnows and leeches are nearly ubiquitous fishing tools in Minnesota, and they’re a fiercely regulated natural resource - those who harvest and sell them must be licensed, undergo aquatic ...

Striped bass have an appetite for minnows. Aaron Jolliff at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said brood minnows work best, but stripers are biting minnows of any size at least 25 feet deep. Best ...

Urbank Bait employees load tanks on a semi-truck bed to carry minnows to Brainerd in time for the opening of the 2021 Minnesota walleye and northern pike fishing season. From left, Tom Lorine, owner ...