“Full moon is the way to snapper fish!” says angler Wyatt Barnett. “You have a couple nights before and a couple nights after the moon with prime night bites. The combination of the light and currents ...

Say what you will about the funny little "goofy" jig that sort of resembles a little banana with a hook stuck in it, but the Doc's Goofy Jig does indeed catch fish. These jigs, made locally in the ...

1: At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, mangrove snapper have been caught nearly every day this past week. Spanish mackerel are steady catches along with spotted trout, bonnet head and nurse sharks. One ...

With a beautiful weather window after Christmas and a red snapper season that was open until the new year, many Gulf anglers took advantage and made one last deep trip west for 2025. I was one of them ...

For the first time since the fall of 2010, fishermen heading offshore beginning Tuesday will be able to keep all of their favorite reef fish species. With the opening of a supplemental red snapper ...

Every June, offshore anglers wish for good weather to head west into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the time of year red snapper season begins and the offshore waters of the Gulf are frequented for their ...