GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The next time you reach into your minnow bucket to thread a shiner into a hook, take a second look. Are you holding a juvenile Asian carp? The Michigan DNR is asking anglers to ...

Don’t dump your bait. The Asian carp situation is without a doubt a serious matter. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and other agencies are spending a lot of money to keep these fish in ...

Across the country, the quiet act of scooping minnows or grabbing a tub of nightcrawlers is colliding with a... The post The ...

There’s a new development in the threat posed to the Great Lakes by the Asian carp. Scientists have studied one Asian carp captured beyond the electronic barriers in the Chicago waterways that are ...

I never thought much about it. At the end of every fishing trip, I’ve always carried the minnow bucket to the water’s edge and dumped all of our unused minnows back into the lake. I figured I would ...

Fort Peck Reservoir is just a minnow bucket away from disaster. In fact, it's just two minnows away. Of all the ecological threats the lake faces, the illegal introduction of Asian carp sits at the ...

Elbows rested on the tables, and backs lined the walls in the American Legion conference room Tuesday night as a large crowd gathered for Dr. Peter Sorensen’s talk about carp. The University of ...

The Cyprinidae fish family is a very large family of vertebrates, which include minnows, carp, goldfish and barbels. The carp is widely distributed throughout Nebraska, often showing up unwanted in ...

Carp fishing is the European equivalent to bass fishing here in the states, particularly in England and France, where anglers have invented fishing techniques and tackle specifically designed to catch ...

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 ...

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 ...