No Minnows What the heck!!!

First fishing Trip in Ohio, I loaded up the truck, carefully stowed the poles, made sure I had the fishing license in the tackle box, stowed the said tackle box, filled hot steaming coffee in the thermos packed the lunch headed to CAESAR CREEK. LAKE, found a Bait and tackle located nearby and asked for a dozen minnows, owner of the tackle shop says' he don't have any, I then asked for the next best thing, Leaches, tackle shop says' he don't have any, then asked for the next live bait in my list Wax worms, you guessed it tackle shop says' he don't have any, No live bait at all said he won't get anything live until the spring, The tackle shop owner suggested that I try Cowan Lake, So I put those coordinates in the good old trusty GPS made the drive to the lake found a bait store and would you know it the same response as above, went looking for another bait store found another one a few miles down the road just to hear the same story. So my question is where is all the live bait? I did manage to wet a few lures in the lake without any bites but by then my 5yr old fishing partner was getting cranky because of the cold and the lack of fishing time.

Thats plum nonsense man.......I bought 50 yesterday......move to Louisiana....get shiners year round....LOL......good luck on the artificials.....

Its gettin that time of year places here that don't do a big business afraid of getting stuck so if place does not advertise they still have minnows here in north IL u best call in advance. some will hold if u guarantee to buy quantity, onlythe busy guys will keep stocking, this time of year I always hauled my minnows with me, and even kept some from week to week.

:mad:After thinking it over the things about this that floats my bobber is that they had signs that they have live bait, owners of bait shop if your out of bait post a sign similar to this Fish biting so good all the bait is gone for now, come in for hot coffee and long stories. But it does look like all the bait stores in the area lost me as a customer except for the coffee, I'm having my first batch of wax worms arriving in the next few days and this payday I'm building a minnow tank in the 4 season room and yes its climate controlled. :D

where are you located in Ohio Cruzzin??

LEARN TO USE JIGS AND SAVE MONEY. We got tired of minnows dying and the cost of them. These days it's tube jigs all year long.

I'm a 90% jig fisherman but can buy minnows around here 24X7. But everything doesnt freeze up down here like with you guys either.:rolleyes:

if you want minnows and cant find them go to walmart grab you some berkley gulp minnows works just as good