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 ...

Shrimp is commonly used as bait, but the Texas Parks and Wildlife warns that using non-Gulf crustaceans when fishing in Texas waters could be harmful. Imported shrimp "may carry several known viruses ...

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 ...

It's a little over a mile to the dam from my house, "as the crow flies". Add in the various twists and turns of the highway, and I can be at Swift Park in about 10 minutes. That's fast. Using a ...

There are bigger bait-and-tackle stores, no doubt. And some that offer a wider variety of live baits. Others may carry all the latest gadgets — electronic and otherwise — designed to put you on top of ...

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 ...

Lance Robinson, deputy director of coastal fisheries for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is hoping to educate anglers and bait dealers about the risks of purchasing and using frozen shrimp as ...