ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s 2025 Gulf private recreational red snapper season is now open. It started over Memorial day weekend ...

OPEN RECREATIONAL SEASONS: Red snapper, gray triggerfish, flounder; lane, blackfin, queen and silk snappers & wenchmen among other snapper species; all groupers except closed for goliath & Nassau ...

Another concern is NOAA’s Amendment 59, which would ban bottom fishing for 55 species from Melbourne to the Georgia border for three months to protect red snapper ... a bottom rig, with a ...

If you prefer taking your time fishing, you're in luck. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the longest private recreational Gulf red snapper season since the state started managing them. In a press ...

Red grouper are frequently being caught, in fact, he said, limits are attainable on just about every trip. For bait, live pinfish and frozen squid work best. Mattay says snapper fishing is good when ...

Back in the shallow water environment is where running-sinker rigs really shine and they’re probably one of my favourite snapper rigs to use ... his reel was singing as a solid red shot off with the ...

Fishing inshore and nearshore is producing ... Mattay has his clients hooking up with hogfish, mangrove snapper, sheepshead and small groupers while using live shrimp on a knocker rig. And, as of Jan.

This process, colloquially referred to as rigs-to-reefs ... Until the mid-20th century, the primary fishing grounds for red snapper were off the western coast of Florida and in the waters south ...

While red snapper love to hit slow pitch jigs and rigged soft plastics, we still do a lot of bottom bouncing with baits to get some fish on ice. Paternoster rigs made from a hard wearing 80 to 100lb ...

"Anyone know any good oil rigs to catch red snapper at this time of year," the ... ("why go 50 when you can actually catch good fish a little father out"); reaching a depth of 100 feet, then ...