No, no, not those snapper. Put down the big rig and lay off the sea-sick pills. This particular snapper is decidedly less sexy than its meatier — and redder — cousins pulled from deep reefs many miles ...

The Gulf of Mexico is loaded with more monster red snapper than avid offshore angler Todd Black has ever seen. Black had to hop from platform to platform Memorial Day Weekend to find one that was ...

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 ...

1: At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, Spanish mackerel, mangrove snapper and white grunts have been steady catches this week. The occasional snook, redfish, speckled trout and pompano have also been caught ...

If you're hoping to win the STAR tournament, you might want to look at a category other than mangrove snapper. Baton Rouge's Todd Black seems to have that one sewn up. Black, who has fished out of ...

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 ...

When the 2025 Gulf recreational red snapper season was announced, most offshore anglers probably saw August as the best time to take off from the water. It’s hot, rainy, and usually a busy time of ...

The heat is truly on here in Southwest Florida. While it is still springtime and the month of May, southeasterly trade winds, ambient heat, warming Gulf water and potent afternoon thunderstorms are ...

Mutton snapper are still biting. Commercial lobster season opens Aug. 6. Alligator hunting season opens Aug. 15, requires permit. Redfish harvest banned in Indian River Lagoon starting Sept. 1. Snook ...

Mangrove Snapper: The mangrove snapper bite is about as good as it gets for area anglers. Big fish and good numbers are being caught all over the Tampa Bay area ...