Surprisingly (or maybe not, considering I’m from Alabama), this wasn’t my first time eating at a bait shop,” wrote L-E ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — It is 30 minutes until the bait season opens, and Mr. Shrimp is about to hyperventilate. His Whaler is packed with shrimp poles, shrimp net, shrimp rake, shrimp basket and beer — lots ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Nets will be flying and grits will be cooking around South Carolina with the start of shrimp-baiting season. The 2010 season opens at noon on Friday and continues through noon ...

As of noon Friday, shrimp baiting season is open in South Carolina waters. Recreational shrimpers who purchase a shrimp-baiting license can legally cast their nets for shrimp over bait during the ...

Friday 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 ...

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 ...

Charleston, SC - CHARLESTON, SC (AP) - Nets will be flying and grits will be cooking around South Carolina with the start of shrimp-baiting season. The 2010 season opens at noon on Friday and ...