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 ...

In this video, I compare the effectiveness of Berkley Gulp Sandworms and Frozen Shrimp as bait for catching perch. Shrimp is ...

Today 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 ...

A routine stop at a local bait store turned wild when a mantis shrimp—nicknamed the “alien of the ocean”—decided to fight back. With lightning-fast reflexes and a punch powerful enough to break glass, ...

Friday at noon, boats can launch for a two-month long fling that is a rite of Lowcountry fall, recreational shrimp baiting. Clay and meal bait balls are dropped around poles set in the water to lure ...

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 ...

Adults measure 8 to 14 inches, and they’re packed with protein-rich oil that helps striped bass grow big. Although menhaden ...