I do love cabin fever, but their bait is not as good as Mases In Towne in Waconia. NOBODY has better wax worms then Mases.

Both stores get their wax worms from the same supplier.

As far as location - Wayzata Bait ain't too shabby. I really wish they would redo their bait tanks (stinks in there). They get most of my business as I fish Tonka a ton in the winter and the price on bait is reasonable.

Best bait shop ever I think is Prince bait -IMO.

Where's Prince Bait?

Milaca? They are on 169 North. They have allot of bait and tackle and a separate gun shop

OK I know where you mean. Thanks fo rthe tip.

No experience with the summertime, but in the winter the old Food n Fuel @ Hwy 7 and Xmas lake road is now my go to. BP in Mound is #2, Cabin Fever is #3 choice, and Kirby's is #4. This is for when buying live bait only, if I need tackle the list changes.

I have never bought bait from Wayzata B&T or Gander, so I don't have a clue how they compare.

well then Mases takes better care of them while they have them.

The whole bait deal has become pretty crazy! Thats the way all bait stores are starting to play it, I rember like 8 years ago when u could get a dozen large suckers for like $6.50. They were cows at that. Now u cant even find shinners worth a darn for northern fishin in the winter, suckers are to expensive when they want 4 dollers for meadiums at best.

I’m sure it’s a combination of several things.

Inflation
Less Supply
DNR regs becoming more strict
Less demand from people using plastics

I get all that and understand it.

BUT (in my mind) when it comes to suckers, a med/large/decoy is a med/large/decoy. It’s not based on what your supplier gives you. Just because these are the largest suckers you have, you don’t call them decoys. People can try to convince me otherwise, but a skinny 6” sucker is not a decoy and there is no way that I would ever pay $24 for 6 of them.

Using the excuse “that is what our supplier gave us” or “well they’ve been picked through” is not an acceptable excuse to me, so that is when I take my $ elsewhere. If a tank of larges has been “picked through” and only leaves you with mediums, then you sell them as mediums.

Dtro the Gander in EP had some huge suckers Sat. One had to be close to 16". Just an FYI.

Thanks Mark. I've had pretty good luck with bait at that GM.

fwiw, for you catfishermen, Moore's bait in S Mpls has bullheads and most of what you'd use for tackle, pretty small place so they don't have a large varity of tackle for anything else, maybe worth a look though.

Al

Thanks Al, a lot of us Cat guys know about Moores, and I try to go there whenever I can to support him. But for me the location just doesn’t work out very well on nights that I’m pressed for time. If Bob was closer, he’d probably be seeing my mug every other day.

Kinda figured that, but I work about 4 blocks from him and never knew he had bullheads..well, never thought of bullheads as bait until this year when I tried actually fishing for cats..:)

Al