Years ago friends and I zipped away from a boat ramp at a North Florida lake during a cool, sunny and windy spring dawn that left little doubt we were in for a tough day of bass fishing. We were in ...

WASKISH, Minn. -- Jonny Petrowske admits he was worried. That’s to be expected when you’re a minnow trapper, and about 65% of your annual income depends on catching spottail shiners on Upper Red Lake ...

This little creek is never more than knee deep, yet sports an assortment of shiners, chubs, crawfish and salamanders. Steep limestone bluffs form a deep canyon along its length. It's just hard enough ...

We're out here looking for that channel catfish bite. We're using a sliding sinker rig with a nice 5/0 hook. On that hook? It ...

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.

1. Around Lakeland, at Tenoroc, the bass bite was best this week at lakes Fishhook, Halfmoon, Hydrilla, Long, Lost Lake West, Waterlou, A, B, F, 2, 3 and 10. Lakes 5 and Shop also had catch rates ...