What: Big Mil’s Bait Shop
Where: 913 1/2 W. Mississippi Drive, Muscatine.
Hours: 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Saturday, open until 10 p.m. in the summer.
Phone: 563-517-7320
Big Mil’s Bait Shop opened just in time. Scott’s Outdoors had just closed. Owner Nathan Bleu, 36, and manager Mil Burroughs, 46, recognized the opportunity and jumped on it.
“Mil put the whole thing together,” Bleu said.
“He knows more about fishin’, and I know more about business,” Mil joked. “We’re each other’s bosses.”
Bleu and Burroughs said they hope to have a fishing contest and a “Wall of Shame/Wall of Fame” for smallest and largest Mississippi River catches.
The shop offers a full supply of live bait from nightcrawlers to wax worms to minnows. Bleu said he will be bringing in brown crickets, bullheads and goldfish in the next week. Burroughs said they will eventually sell beer, too, after they get their liquor license, but for now, fishermen can grab soda and snacks at the shop.
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