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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Lake Erie yellow perch are finally making an appearance along the Ohio shoreline, but where are the emerald shiner minnows? The most popular bait for catching yellow perch has been ...