Surprisingly (or maybe not, considering I’m from Alabama), this wasn’t my first time eating at a bait shop,” wrote L-E ...

As happens tens of thousands of times each year, a Texas angler walks into a bait shop, fishes a thin cardboard box or plastic bag holding a pound or so of frozen shrimp from the stack in the store’s ...

My first live shrimp offering in more than a year sailed ahead of the jaunty red and white cork and plopped several feet from the jetty rocks. The cork drifted perhaps two feet in the pulling current.

Live shrimp are the finest baits available to coastal fishermen and, at current prices, worth all the care it takes to keep them kicking. I took several phone calls this past week from newcomers to ...

In fact, the shrimp caught off the Hernando coast account for more than a quarter of the shrimp sold in bait shops around the state _ 608,240 pounds' worth. The state's bait shrimp king, Hernando ...

A routine stop at a local bait store turned wild when a mantis shrimp—nicknamed the “alien of the ocean”—decided to fight ...

Friday at noon, they'll be in the rivers along the coast. Shrimp-baiters they are called, traveling in the smallest of boats to the largest of vessels from which a cast net can be thrown. It's the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Over the past few years, the shrimping business has been struggling. Even the number of boats licensed to catch bait shrimp in Texas bays has dropped. There are currently only ...

As happens tens of thousands of times each year, a Texas angler walks into a bait shop, fishes a thin cardboard box or plastic bag holding a pound or so of frozen shrimp from the stack in the store’s ...