Thirty million people ages 16 and older went recreational fishing in 2006, the latest year for which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has data. They spent $42 billion doing so, of which 45 percent, ...

A Harley or Corvette? Lacking those funds, maybe a new wardrobe or city-bought haircut? Steve Murray ventured from the cliché. Far, far from it. He bought a bait-and-tackle store. Hey, somebody has to ...

ST. CLOUD — With outdoor activities being limited by the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are finding the time to try something new. And with the Minnesota fishing opener for walleye, sauger and ...

GREENWICH — Fred Stahl Jr., 53, smoked a cigarette outside Byram Bait & Tackle on Wednesday afternoon, a fish hook adorned the right side of the stained, beige baseball cap on which his shop’s name ...

Courtesy photo Creg Strock, owner of Aquatic Imitations, waits on a customer, Chuck Norris, at his shop. Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered businesses across the country. A handful ...

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There are bigger bait-and-tackle stores, no doubt. And some that offer a wider variety of live baits. Others may carry all the latest gadgets — electronic and otherwise — designed to put you on top of ...

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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, ...

CLINTON — The service is the bait here. What’s up with that? Possession Point Bait Co. owner Dan Cooper slogs through the water in chest waders to hand deliver-buckets of live herring to boaters. Or ...

Pick a year. Any year. When John Wetrosky worked the counter at Koep's Nisswa Bait and Tackle from 1971 to 1978, every Minnesota fishing opener knocked him out. The joyful stampede of walleye anglers ...

Customer traffic at three bait shops near Sebastian Inlet State Park — Whitey's, Long Point and Wabasso Bait and Tackle — has been reduced to a trickle since the north jetty closed Nov. 4. Yet they're ...