"Anyone know any good oil rigs to catch red snapper at this time of year," the author began. "I have a 21-foot offshore boat so I can go up to 50 miles out." The liveliest thread within the ensuing ...

One mini-season ends and before you know it, another one will begin. Red snapper fishing season — all two days of it — are behind us now. It'll be a year before everyone on the Space Coast has to ...

About 20 miles off shore is where you can find one of the Gulf’s most popular fish – the red snapper. “When the season’s open everybody goes out there’s so many big snappers that they catch the quota ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — American red snapper are a fun species to catch and even more delicious to eat. The recreational season to keep red snapper runs through the end of July in the Gulf of Mexico with ...

Team Dat's Nice fished out of a bay boat in East Bay to catch the leading red snapper stringer going into the final day of competition at the 2016 Faux Pas Fishing Rodeo. (Photo by Todd Masson, ...

Now that private recreational fishermen are in the first days of the new 39-day red snapper season in federal waters, there’s a lingering question about any future season or seasons for the hundreds ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. In Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, a new federal rule has fishermen angry. A ban on ...

If you talk to anglers along the South Carolina coast, they’ll tell you red snapper are everywhere. They’ll describe trips where snapper are so abundant that it’s hard to catch anything else. Despite ...

Louisiana sport anglers reeled in nearly 950,000 pounds of red snapper during the 2025 season, newly released estimates show, as the state works with federal authorities to restore population numbers ...