Those early days owning a bait shop were touch-and-go for Sue Chalstrom. She and her husband, John, had just bought their shop north of Duluth in 1981. Chalstrom's Bait and Tackle would soon become a ...

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 ...

During a recent morning at Frankie’s Live Bait and Marine, Frankie Dusenka carefully scooped water from a minnow tank and poured it into another container while softly cooing, “Fishy, fishy, fishy.” ...

Stopping into a bait shop for a scoop of crappie minnows, shiners or fathead minnows is a Minnesota tradition. But supplying those bait shops has become increasingly more difficult as invasive species ...

An opportunity to purchase what is now Mitlyng's Bait and Tackle sounded like a good idea to two brothers who loved to hunt and fish back in 1974. One of those brothers has stayed with it ever since, ...

CHASKA, Minn. (WCCO) - Ask anglers where minnows come from and they'll likely say the bait store. But odds are the bait in your bucket went through Ron Meuwissen's pole barn. "They're gonna work hard ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently launched an online “Retail Bait Shop Locator” — a comprehensive map of licensed bait retailers that sell minnows, wigglers and ...