Coastal fishing continues to gain in popularity, thanks in great part to the availability and effectiveness of live shrimp.

Most area bait stores get thousands of fresh live shrimp every day. That means a lot of folks walking through the door with their bait buckets.

This weekend, thousands of people will go saltwater fishing, most buying live shrimp to use for bait. Before they’ve finished for the day, many will be mad – because a lot of the shrimp they ...

Shrimp, live or dead, is arguably the most popular and effective of saltwater baits.

Parker prefers using mid-size live shrimp for his river fishing with float rigs. Small shrimp are tough to keep alive on a hook, and big shrimp can be too meaty to drive a hook through to barb ...

The go-to bait so far this year for Stanford has been a live shrimp threaded onto a 2/0 thin freshwater bass hook and free-lined with just a short leader and small split-shot to hold the bait on ...

My preference for surf fishing with shrimp is fresh dead. It costs less than live shrimp and is more durable than frozen shrimp. I do not use the whole shrimp unless it is a small one.

That's certainly not the norm for anglers throwing live shrimp in Barataria Bay. "It's getting warmer, and our fish are getting a little smaller," Bourgeois said.

Visitors wait for the shrimp to bite at Chuencheng, one of the older shrimp fishing pools in Taipei, Taiwan.