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 ...

Capt. Lloyd Landry wanted to ensure he caught fish during a Tuesday trip to the marshes east of Buras, so he stopped at Frelich's to pay 40-cents apiece for live shrimp. The popular bait stand on ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're willing to spare no expense to catch an ice chest full of speckled trout, Capt. Jack Payne has some advice for you: Buy way more live shrimp than you'll need, and use the trout candy as chum ...

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 ...

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 cranky old fishing guide long ago told me the best fisherman on his boat was a rod holder. I don't think this was a comparative comment on my angling skill, though he was looking directly at me.

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 ...