Many times on this forum and others i have seen people say "check with the local baitshop". Most of the time i buy all my stuff at wal-mart because around here the small shops are a bit to proud of their stuff. i was in town , just goofing off and stopped by a baitshop just to look around when i happened upon a nice elderly fella that was just hanging out there. We talked a bit and i asked him what he liked to use to catch bass with. He said "i don't use anything but minner's, but i treat them differant than most people". Naturally i was courious so i asked him what he ment. He said , one morning about 25 years ago he went fishing with a bucket of minnows and when he rowwed the boat out into the lake he took a big swig from a jug of moonshine he happen to have brought with him . As he hooked a minner(as he called them )he must got to feeling the "shine" and he felt sorry for the tiny fish flopping on the hook before him.....sooooo he pour a slug of the moonshine on it. he then casted it out into the water as as soon as it hit , he said the pole doubled over and he was in the biggest fish fight he had ever saw. after fighting for 20 minutes he pulled it up out of the water he saw that the minner had a strangle hold on a 10 pound bass