After a cold winter, we were hoping for warm weather and we sure got it. We transitioned quickly to spring conditions with water temperatures rising into the mid-70s.   Right now is some of the best ...

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 ...

The historic shrimp run on the St. Johns continues to be just that -- historic. Weeks after the shrimp should be gone, they're not. The number of shrimp is still decreasing, but the size remains ...

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 catches trout quick, but the real story is how many you can catch on one bait because we all go through a bag of baits pretty quick these days, and they're not cheap anymore," Chaumont said. "So, ...

Just a half decade ago, speckled trout anglers who wanted to fish with live shrimp had to catch the crustaceans themselves with a cast net or wait until the inshore shrimp season opened along the ...

That's lessened by using soft-plastic twitch baits. Those lures are proving especially productive this spring because the fish are still keyed on baitfish. Shrimp haven't grown enough in the ...

A chance discovery of dozens of American silver perch -- known locally as sweet trout -- in a bait cage lead to this nice speckled trout caught under the lights at Dauphin Island. (Kendyll Patrizi) ...

Spring fishing choices continue to expand with millions of shad migrating up the Lower Columbia River, plus the daily limit for spot shrimp is increasing in two marine waterways and trout are biting ...

Capt. Theophile Bourgeois is a big fan of shrimp. He especially likes to roll them in Louisiana Fish Fry, drop them in hot grease and dump them on french bread slathered with mayonnaise. But for ...

The big news is the shrimp are showing up north of us and a little early at that. While prognosticating on their behavior is generally a fool's errand, I generally fit that bill. So what this looks ...