It’s one of the most anticipated seasons of the year for offshore anglers — American red snapper season is officially open in ...

Head a little farther west into the Gulf of Mexico and you can fish wrecks and rock piles for grouper, mangrove snapper ... We switched to a bottom rig, with a hook above a weight that kept ...

Around 200 New Zealand fishers and fisher-adjacent people gathered in Christchurch this week for the NZ Federation of Commercial Fishermen ...

“The bigger snapper don’t need bottom structure for safety ... When a chum slick forms, drop hooks baited with whole pogies, squid or fish chunks. “We use a knocker rig with a 2-ounce weight that ...

The reefs are in top shape this week for those chasing bottom fish according to the team at Tackle World Bundaberg.

For live-baiting blackfin tunas, it’s a 2/0 circle, and for larger snapper, cobia and other reef denizens, I go with a 3/0 or 4/0 circle hook. A standard, long-leader bottom rig is built on a ...

Despite this, federal regulators allowed only one day of red snapper fishing in the South Atlantic last year. This year may not be any better. The federal management system is broken. As president ...

You cast the rig out, drag it slowly along the bottom, and when you feel the rig go mushy, you swing-set into the fish. It’s that simple, generally speaking. But let’s dive into the details of ...