When you come to the bait store you may notice that the walls are lined with photos and posters of some of the world’s top fishermen and events that shaped modern fishing as we know it today. This article shows an advertisement that Chuck Hamer ran for Frankie in the mid 1970s. Frankie was about …
Since 1968, our goal at Frankie’s Live Bait and Marine has been to develop relationships, where customers become our friends, through knowledge, honesty, and great customer service! We have 50+ years of knowledge in the fishing and marine industry. If you are in the market for a new or used boat, live bait, or marine …
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50 years went by very fast. Going through them a year at a time it seemed the year would never end. Looking back, they went by too soon. It has been quite a run from Northeast Minneapolis to Chisago City. From the bar business to the hardware boating business. In 1968 purchased hardware in Chisago. …
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Frankie Dusenka got into minnows early in life. On Sunday mornings Dusenka’s dad used to take him to the hardware store where he discovered “there is a dollar to be make in minnows and worms.” “And it was a fun dollar,” Dusenka says. At age 12 Dusenka started a bait business in the corner of …
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