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 ...

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 ...

It would be a nice change to be able say that the bite is on and the spring coastal fishing action has been causing all kinds of buzz and chatter among the boat angling flotilla, but to put it in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An order of fishing gear delivered by Walmart. In a nod to all the early-rising anglers looking for a more convenient way to prep ...

Louisiana's coastal anglers can buy live shrimp almost all year now. (Photo by Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) (Todd Masson) Just a half decade ago, speckled trout anglers who wanted to ...

The element of fear shouldn’t enter the discussion approaching a fishing trip. But there’s no escaping one horrific thought that infects the gray matter every time. “What if we run out of bait?” ...

ROCKPORT — On any given trip to this anglers' playground, Pirates of the Bay guide Doug Stanford is quick to dip into his “arsenal” to help haul keeper speckled trout, redfish and black drum into his ...

Bait Barn Fisheries, in Bryan, is a monument to fish, fishing, and the community of anglers the store's owners have built.

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 ...