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“Big mangrove snapper, sheepshead, flounder and a bunch of snook right off the beach — always after the storm, and they hardly ever show up any other time.” Water quality will be the big ...

A Tennessee woman was cited for possessing undersized fish in Marathon, Florida on Tuesday. Deputy Kevin Gonzalez observed ...

Captain Jim Hobales of Caught Lookin Charters reported there has been an excellent mangrove snapper and sea trout bite south of Sandy Key in areas that have big mullet muds. Bouncing soft plastics ...

Since Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Brown has had very few fishing trips. He’s back up and running, but strong east winds and ...

The biggest recovery—perhaps as many as thousands of fish—has been off southwest Florida where the mangrove ... big fish interfere with business. “We have goliaths taking legal grouper and ...

Rarely, a vine. A troop of fiddler crabs guarding holes in the mud. A big mangrove crab low on a trunk. Some insects. A tricolored heron perched on the stilt of a mangrove root. I leaned over the ...

That’d be the mangrove snapper, Spanish mackerel, tarpon, a few sharks and some others. But there’ll be a big uptick in sheepshead around pilings, reds in shallower water around oyster bars ...

NOAA is proposing a possible "secretarial amendment" that has the potential to shut down bottom-fishing in the Southeast ...

Bill says the bigger fall trout are showing up in good numbers on the grass flats in waters of New Port Richey and at Anclote ...

“I’ve caught flounder, snook, sheepshead and mangrove snapper, and some big redfish and black drum. It seems like this trend is continuing.” Chris Mansfield (Reel Healin ...

Samuel walked up to long snapper Taybor Pepper and grabbed the teammate by the throat. Pepper followed Samuel and shouted back at the wide receiver. But the entire scene was odd and honestly ...