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 ...

Mary Vang caught a catfish, estimated to weigh between 10-12 pounds, using a jig head at Ute Lake with a 3-inch Gulp minnow on Sept. 20. Jeremy Pitts caught a 37-inch tiger muskie at Bluewater Lake ...

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 ...

Weston Cole Elebario, 2, of Tucumcari caught his first fish, a 14-inch, 2.3-pound smallmouth bass, at Conchas Lake using a Berkley Gulp minnow on Aug. 6. Cole, Avery and Hailey Jaramillo, 7, 5 and 9, ...

Hannah Anema tosses minnow feed into one of the 15 Minnesota DNR fish ponds in New London Monday morning. The flathead and sucker minnows are food for new muskie fingerlings, which arrived last week ...