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 ...

A few walleyes are coming off lakes Ida and Miltona in 20 feet of water. Theres an evening walleye bite on Reno Lake in 12 to 14 feet. Reno and Lake Mary are kicking out crappies in eight to 14 feet, ...

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.

Water temperatures have dipped into the low 40-degree range, so shiner minnows should start running into the Rainy River in big numbers -- and when they do, look for the walleyes to follow. For now, ...

The focus of litigation, advocacy and cattle rancher ire in the past, the Arkansas River shiner inhabits parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A final Fish and Wildlife Service plan anticipates it ...

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, ...

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 ...

ADRIAN, Minn. -- The tiny Topeka shiner could have a big say in the development of a dairy operation near Adrian in southwest Minnesota. The minnow is the only fish in Minnesota on the federal ...

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 ...

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 ...