After three decades as a charter fishing guide, Steve Amick says he's never seen red snapper as large or plentiful as he did last year off Georgia's Atlantic coast. Soon, catching them could be illegal. ...more

March 6, 2009

With its imposing size, prehistoric appearance and unique barbed snout, the sawfish once was a common sight in Florida waters, often hauled to docks as a trophy catch or dispatched by fishermen when nets ensnared the toothy bill. ...more

December 31, 2008

Although many reef anglers say they are catching more small gag grouper than at any time in the past 20 years, state and federal fishery managers have confirmed a plan to reduce the bag limit on the popular reef species to one per person per day as part of an aggregate bag of five groupers of all species. Formerly, Gulf anglers could take up to five gags daily. ...more

December 21, 2008

The weather has been much better, cooler but with less wind. ...more

November 19, 2008

They come like a gray river flowing through the sea. Spanish mackerel by the hundreds of thousands are beginning their annual migration, a journey that takes them some 400 miles from the Florida Panhandle to the Keys, and for many several hundred miles more back up the east coast before they make the return trip in spring. ...more

October 12, 2008

Red snappers and Gulf reef fish are being protected by new rules implemented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission today. ...more

February 7, 2008

Commercial mullet netters, who saw their catches cut more than 60 percent by the 1995 net-ban amendment, have requested that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ease harvest regulations now that the fish have recovered to healthy levels statewide. ...more

January 27, 2008

Anglers fishing federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, more than nine nautical miles from shore, will face new gear requirements when seeking reef fish starting this spring. ...more

January 15, 2008

Amberjack used to be the 'easy' big game fish, with clouds of the huge, muscular fighters found around every offshore wreck. 'AJs' as they are affectionately known to many anglers, have a reputation of being pound-for-pound one of the strongest fish in offshore waters. And until the mid-1980s they were abundant to a fault. There were often so many of them around some wrecks and reefs that getting a live bait past them to catch a big gag or red grouper was a real struggle. AJs of 30 to 40 pounds were common, and occasionally were decked at double that size - a nice 'problem' to have. ...more

September 9, 2007