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 ...

The Lowcountry loves its shrimp. So much so that when people first had the idea in the 1980s to stick a pole in the ground and throw bait around it to get more shrimp with each cast of the net, fights ...

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 ...

The 2016 shrimp-baiting season will open at noon on Friday, Sept. 9 in South Carolina waters. Recreational shrimpers who purchase a shrimp-baiting license can legally cast their nets for shrimp over ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA — Fewer shrimp-baiters, not fewer shrimp, are probably the reason for the continuing decline in the amount of shrimp harvested off the coast of South Carolina. The 60-day recreational ...

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 ...

The 2010 shrimp-baiting season will open at noon Friday, Sept. 10 in South Carolina waters. Although an unusually cold winter resulted in some mortality of white shrimp, adequate numbers survived to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...