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.

DEER RIVER, Minn. — A shortage of spottail shiner minnows is causing a ripple effect across north-central Minnesota, frustrating anglers and worrying bait dealers who rely on the fish for a ...

DEER RIVER -- Standing in waders, hip-deep in a lake near Deer River, Bill Powell flipped two modest scoops of spottail shiner minnows into a holding tank on his boat Wednesday afternoon. "Kind of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - It's the bait that catches fish. Walleyes particularly. Better than a fathead, a golden shiner flashes in the water, attracting predators big, small and in between. But a shiner ...

1. In Lakeland, bass are continuing to spawn, so stick to the shallow water, try flipping dark-colored creature baits. If you can find them, try shiners for bass as well. Specks continue to hit ...

Central Lakes College horticulture students are harvesting golden shiner minnows from the college's aquaponics system in the greenhouse. The project, which is a partnership with Minnesota Sea Grant, ...

Barry Thoele stands in front of one of his greenhouses near Staples, Minn. As part of the Minnesota Sea Grant golden shiner project, Thoele will grow baitfish right alongside his hydroponics system ...

Duluth, Minn. - Spottail shiners, a favorite early season bait for anglers on Lake Winnibigoshish and other Minnesota lakes, could be in short supply this year as the result of a new minnow-harvesting ...

STAPLES, Minn. — It’s quite possible that many anglers will be skunked before they even hit the water for this weekend's Minnesota fishing opener as live bait supplies are limited, according to bait ...

Some of my favorite memories involve occasions when family, friends and I took off, hung up the sign, so to speak, and went fishing. I was taught to never release the first fish caught regardless of ...

DEER RIVER, Minn. - Standing in waders, hip-deep in a lake near Deer River, Bill Powell flipped two modest scoops of spottail shiner minnows into a holding tank on his boat Wednesday afternoon. "Kind ...