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 ...

There are times when emeralds are not only worth their weight in gold, they’re even more valuable. Just ask any Lake Erie yellow perch angler. Especially now, when emerald shiners are at a premium or ...

KISSIMMEE, FL — The sun was starting to break through some morning clouds and shower us with the first light of the morning as guide Randy Yager piloted his boat through a thick mat of vegetation.

Conrad Gardiner lugs a pair of traps and a bucket from a stream in Hallowell on Tuesday. Gardiner said he was switching the bait traps to another stream to catch shiners for ice fishing bait.

Golden shiners, a shimmering live bait favored by winter walleye anglers, are at the center of an escalating policy dispute between bait shops barred from importing the minnows and fisheries managers ...

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 ...

The Norfork Lake striper fishing is hot right now. The stripers are feeding on flats in the 30 to 40-foot range around Crystal Cove and then up to Fout's. Large schools of shad are roaming the flats, ...

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.

In today's video, me and my friends ‪Juno Brandon‬ and Dakotah compete in a 1v1v1 exotic fish catching challenge! We used live shiners in attempt to catch as many rare clown knife fish as possible! US ...