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 ...

It should be a beautiful weekend to work the ICW with shrimp on jigs or float rigs. There have been pretty ... always a great bet for wahoo. The bottom fishing has been excellent as it should ...

But the oil wasn’t coming from a leak or some other failure of the rig ... northern red snapper, is one of the most frequently caught species in the Gulf’s recreational fishing industry.

consisting of a snapper lead at the bottom of the line and hooks on droppers above it, is effective for some species such as pearl perch. I like to use luminous tubing on the droppers of these rigs ...

Red snapper? Closing at the end of July ... If they stay down we might fish a heavier jig head or bottom rig,” said Krutzky. “You got to be ready to mix it up and try different things to ...

But instead of pompano, let’s talk about the famous pompano rig. A couple years ... who downsizes often to fish for bait. “Catfish and stingrays are bottom-feeders, so he designed it to ...

Bass, snapper, tripletail and bluefish are in ... Snook, drum and flounder are available on bottom fishing rigs with live croaker or mullet. Bluefish, Spanish mackerel and jacks can be caught ...

For example, when fishing for different types of bottom-dwelling fish like flounder and ... feeding near structures more effectively. In pursuit of snapper, we find that the high low rig can be used ...

Some anglers are quite dismissive of bottom fishing, regarding it as a rather dull ... to the Gold Coast over 30 years ago you could catch big snapper consistently on these crude looking rigs, but ...

If the snapper don’t rise up in the chum, add a weight to the rig to get the bait on the bottom in front of their noses. Usually a knocker rig — an egg sinker and a small circle hook — will work. You ...