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 ...

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) - If you are in a hurry to get in some bream fishing, you might swing by the local supermarket for bait. Yes, you know the store doesn't sell live red worms or crickets, but it does ...

A trail of pink and purple stains runs along the floor of the Water’s Edge Tackle Shop in Clarkston. The handle on the front door is stained, as are the telephone and other frequently used items. 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 ...

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 ...

Remember when live bait shrimp went for $2 a quart? I can, but that was more years ago than I care to relate. Tells too much about my age. Today, one can expect to pay between $16 and $25 a quart for ...

At first, Mike Linker and his fishing buddy didn't know what to make of the poles that stretched hundreds of yards along the shoreline as they cruised the Beaufort River one night 20 years ago. But ...

A BAIT BUCKET KAYAK, SMALL-BOAT AND BANK FISHERMEN SHOULD LOVE - I'm not into promoting products, but when I saw Frabill's Magnum Shrimp Flow-Troll, my first thought was that it would be a huge hit ...

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 ...

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 ...

What started out as a slow fishing week along the Georgia coastal region began to pick up as the current weekend approached. Fishing camps and marinas were busy Friday and yesterday as warm ...

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 ...