Quick update, the one on boon rd is closed. They are just a contractor business. The marathon gas station in town sells bait now. They sell goldens, suckers, blues (spottail shiners) and pinheads (emeralds shiners).
It seems that many places, lymans including, only has emeralds for their perch and crappie fishing needs. Some will carry fathead minnows at the end of summer. Yes Rich, fathead deal much better with temperature changes than emeralds. They can even survive poor water quality very well. Perfect bucket bait. Seems the only place that reliably sells fathead minnows is the petshops. (The rosy red feeder fish for 10 to 16 cents a pop). But I'm pretty sure that is not something the dnr would be pleased with if anyone was caught using them. Even though the species is native to many Michigan lakes and streams.
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