When targeting mangrove snapper, it is best to hit them at the slower portions of the tides, beginning and end. Position yourself so your bait will be swept into the structure where they are schooled.

We've been waiting on this weekend for nigh on a year. Now it's here and you better be ready. Red snapper mini-season is upon us Friday and Saturday. Two days, like last year, is all we get if you ...

There’s a reason they’re not called channel snapper. Hang around the mangroves long enough, season after season, year after year, from the dawn of time through the Industrial Revolution, a guy can get ...

Back in the not-so-long-ago days when the recreational red snapper season was dwindling to a very few days, the two-per-angler daily limit was more prized than it is today. This year’s two-snapper per ...

It's Father's Day weekend and the snapper bite could not be better. If you can, take Dad snapper fishing for chances to catch the big three of Treasure Coast snapper fishing — mutton snapper, mangrove ...

So far, we could easily call this the summer of snapper. Since the snapper bite began in earnest in March, the snapper bite offshore has been glorious. Mutton snapper, mangrove snapper, lane snapper ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — American red snapper are a fun species to catch and even more delicious to eat. The recreational season to keep red snapper runs through the end of July in the Gulf of Mexico with ...

Stephanie Travis, left, and Wendy Jordan with a hogfish caught in 50-feet of water off Anna Maria Island. Jon Chapman Special to Bradenton Herald “Is it always this easy!?” Wendy Jordan happily ...

Did you feel it? The air, I mean. That coolness and crispness, the dryness, the breezy conditions from the north and northeast? It's downright delightful. Actual fall is actually here. Forget the ...

With all of the species on the catch and release list these days, there are precious few fish for-fish-for-dinner folks to target. While I'm a solid proponent of the catch and release of game fish, ...