John Cunningham, part-owner of Newport Bait Co., scoops bait from one of the barge’s six tanks and carefully empties it into a customer’s bait tank. Today, it’s a sardine-anchovy mix, $30 a ...

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 ...

Bait stores from as far off as Hayward, Wis. come to Ron's to stock up. "Usually we got a month to get ready for the fishing opener and kind of get it all working," he said.