Extended red snapper season puts a premium on the right tackle. Learn which bottom-fishing combos excel for snapper, grouper, ...

When you KNOW big grouper are waiting below, 30 minutes feels like two hours. It was halfway though a good day of fishing about 35 miles east of Charleston Harbor, and Capt. Rick Reddick's 26-foot ...

Grouper season opened Wednesday in Atlantic waters, including the Treasure Coast. But this won't be like any grouper season before it. Gag grouper harvest will be cut short on June 15. It won't ...

The area proposed for closing follows depth contours from about 100 to 240 feet deep. Fishing for grouper, snapper and other bottom species would not be allowed, but anglers could still troll for ...

What's hot: Offshore fishing for red grouper remains productive in 50- to 75-foot depths. The key is to find good live bottom with structure nearby. The fish have been active, and it shouldn't take ...

Got grouper? Season opened May 1 for the tasty tackle-testing bottom dwellers and while some days were windy, many were fishable so far. The next few days also look pretty fishable. Boaters will find ...

“My guys were trophy hunters,” said Captain Dion Davis, who runs a quad-engine Freeman out of Sarasota allowing him to target deepwater fish on single day trips. “They wanted to swing for the fences ...

Capt. Tim Noe tries to avoid red snapper most of the year. And now that the red snapper season has begun, he still finds himself trying to get other bottom species before the aggressive snapper hit ...

With gag grouper and red grouper season now closed for the remainder of 2024, offshore anglers may need to change up their tactics for a full fish box. While grouper anglers usually rely on heavy ...

Captain Tyler DeGraff was glad he had a seaworthy team fishing with him at the Boca Grande Bottom Blast Fishing Tournament. “I think there were about 20 boats originally signed up. But once the ...

Mullet seekers are having some early luck off the mullet wall on the Shands Bridge. There is an epic bite of stripers between 5 and 12 pounds on the Croaker Hole in the river down by Lake George. The ...