bait shops near bay city state park???

[fish-n-hunt4life]

Im working near there for the next month or two. just wondering if there is a bait shop close besides franks. hopefully i can get out of work early enough to fish a few hours and not spend alot of time driving to get bait.thanks for any help .

[walleyeman2006]

i used to sell bait right down from the park but all i can remeber othen then the store i used to work at witch has closed was a party store just before the curve if your heading out of bay city........michigan sportsman on m25 in essexville is closer then franks too

[Southend517]

there is a party store on Henry St. in Bay city that has bait - right across from Clayton Cleaners (sp) one block from midland St. I also think there is a bait store just of the Indy Bridge (trumble) on marquette I think it is called Master's bait store sort a by Beason's.

[fish-n-hunt4life]

I just rembembered there is a corner store on patterson heading toward the dnr lauch at the mouth. Ive bought crawlers there before. Wonder if they have minnows???:confused:

[Southend517]

I just rembembered there is a corner store on patterson heading toward the dnr lauch at the mouth. Ive bought crawlers there before. Wonder if they have minnows???

It is still there but I think it is not open many hours. State Park Grocery - 434 State Park Drive Banger Twp 989-671-9510

old town party store 204 S. Henry St. Bay City 48706 892-8939

the one on marquette if it is still there it is own by the dude that own master's body shop and it is one block from the body shop 1006 Marquette Av. Bay City 989-684-1233 (body shop number)

[maliki]

Don's Quik Stop at the end of Patterson Road. Just take state park drive to wheeler road, go east on wheeler road about 1 1/2 miles to Patterson Road, Go north on Patterson about 1/2 - 3/4 of a mile. Don's is on the right side just before the stop sign. They do sell minnows.

[fish-n-hunt4life]

thanks maliki, i thought that there was a bait shop there. my company is building a house on four mile road right by wilder and its like 10 mins from the state park, so if and when i can get out at 3:30 or 4 ish im gonna drive to that bait shop and then to the state park and hopefully catch some fish. any tips for the walleyes out there? thanks too southend ill try that too, figure out which place is the easiest for me .

[maliki]

I fish state park towards the end of feb in about 4-6 ft of water for walleye. The fishing is usually great and I feel much safer in the shallow water. I hate cracks they scare the hell out of me:tdo12: . Good luck on the perch or walleye.

[baydog2]

I just rembembered there is a corner store on patterson heading toward the dnr lauch at the mouth. Ive bought crawlers there before. Wonder if they have minnows???:confused:

Looked like they just had perch size minnows in there, and the minnow tank looked pretty low on quantity. We was looking for waxworms and they didn't have any. We ran to Walmart on Wilder Road they had waxworms but pretty small ones. I should have bought bulk earlier .