"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gulf's red snapper population sharply declined in previous decades, but has been gradually improving. Quotas are in place ...

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, ...

Two Florida Congressmen — a Republican and a Democrat — and the state's now-senior U.S. senator want to throw a bone to red snapper anglers off the Atlantic coast. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Jacksonville ...

In Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, a new federal rule has fishermen angry. A ban on fishing for red snapper—one of the most popular saltwater fish — starts Jan. 4. Federal agencies and ...

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WALA) - Friday, May 23, 2025 is a big day for offshore anglers in Alabama as the red snapper season for recreational fishermen begins. Starting at midnight and running through the ...