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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oceana, the oceans conservation group that’s earned a reputation for sniffing out fish fraud, is out with a new study on how consumers are even being fooled by America’s favorite seafood — shrimp ...