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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re planning on doing some fishing this Memorial Day weekend, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says to make sure you use the proper bait. Shrimp is standard bait for many anglers but the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At this point, y’all know one of my longest-held beliefs is that some of the most delicious food comes in some of the most ...

Benicia >> Lately, Curtis Hayes doesn’t know what to do with himself. “I’m usually out on the boat,” Hayes said. “Now I go back to the store and I have to relearn everything.” Hayes and his wife, Pam, ...

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 ...

How can something so grotesque looking be so delicious? I’m referring to shrimp. When I lived on the Gulf Coast of Florida, we would use shrimp for bait to catch our dinner. Our bait man, Mr. Ed, ...

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 ...