Just off Anna Maria Island in Tampa, Nashville Predators forward Zach L'Heureux was on the verge of catching the fish of his dreams. As an amateur angler growing up outside Montreal, L'Heureux dreamed ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (SNN) — A group of Riverview High School students had the idea to go shark-fishing last weekend and reeled in something unexpected off of Turtle Beach in Sarasota. “At first we were ...

A divided board of Florida game regulators took a tentative step Wednesday that might eventually allow fishermen to catch and kill goliath groupers, a fish that was almost driven to extinction 30 ...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (SNN-TV) — Some area high school students have a big fish story to tell. According to proud dad Stuart Francis, his son Isaac and his friends caught a goliath grouper while ...

Many Florida anglers know the Goliath grouper as the creature that rises from the depths and steals their catch off their line. But few know what it’s like to reel in this highly protected fish, let ...

Jonathan Earhart of Hobe Sound has been catching and releasing goliath grouper since he began fishing Florida waters as a young boy. For the past decade, the fishing guide has steered clients to ...

The state is allowing for the harvest of a massive reef fish again this year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is allowing a limited take of Goliath grouper in March, and ...

“You work your whole life in the ocean for a moment like this,” Tallboy Fishing Charters Captain Richard Pollitzer said after snaring an incredibly massive and rare fish. During a recent expedition in ...

Forget beach fishing: There's too much seaweed Don't count on catching live bait offshore; buy it before heading out. Four species of snook are biting now: fat, tarpon, common and swordspine. Fishing ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Even though gag grouper season is currently closed, the thrill of catching one hasn’t gone anywhere—and in this week’s Reel Talk, Amanda shows how to responsibly fish for them ...