Varying water temps require change in bait for hookups - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is not easy for small time entrepreneurs to muscle their way into the fishing bait and tackle business in the Northwest. Much of the industry is dominated by companies that have been around for a ...

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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — It is 30 minutes until the bait season opens, and Mr. Shrimp is about to hyperventilate. His Whaler is packed with shrimp poles, shrimp net, shrimp rake, shrimp basket and beer — lots ...

Look out for a mad rush at area boat ramps beginning at noon Friday. That's when the 2009 recreational shrimp baiting season officially opens, and you can bet there will be a logjam of shrimpers eager ...

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 ...

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