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Located right off Montrose Harbor, Park Bait Shop isn’t just a resource for anglers: it’s a slice of Chicago history.

Wiggly Worm bait supply is located in Ballston Lake on Route 50. Today, the small white building features a round sign with a cartoon worm and the slogan, "I got hooked at Wiggly Worm Bait Supply." ...

Pike Lake bait and gun shop sold Fisherman’s Corner has been an institution for decades. Fisherman's Corner owner Scott VanValkenburg, behind the counter, talks with a customer in 2009.

Jack Vadas, a bait shop owner on Chicago's East Side who fought to protect perch and was a ”major figure in Lake Michigan fisheries,” has died at 86.

Cody Rollings' dream of running a bait shop and bike/paddle board rental service in Lake City has come to an end. Rollings opened Breakwall Outfitters across from the Lake City Marina a bit more ...

Eight years later he took over the lease on the Park Bait Shop. It was just a concession stand then, but Greene added on a shed in the back with 10,000- and 5,000-gallon minnow tanks.

Mark Bry, left, and Dan Bonham, right, are the new owners of Ed's Bar and Bait Shop, a Devils Lake institution since 1958. Annie Howard, center, manages the shop.

The bait shop is busy only on the weekends. Summer is best, but also whenever word gets out that there is a bite on the lake or below the dam. Ice fishing on Lac qui Parle Lake has been picking up ...