The day started with a roosterfish hit so violent it nearly ripped the jigging rod out of my hands and sent shockwaves straight up my arm. Before I could recover, a broomtail grouper slammed the next ...

Team Big Game poses with some of the fish they caught using the slow-pitch jigging fishing technique to win the inaugural International Jigging Casting Association Tournament in July 2023. From left: ...

For the first time since the fall of 2010, fishermen heading offshore beginning Tuesday will be able to keep all of their favorite reef fish species. With the opening of a supplemental red snapper ...

Offshore:Today marks the start of the closed season for grouper in federal waters. Red snapper season is also closed. So the main offshore targets will be mangrove snapper, amberjack and kingfish.

One of the hottest artificial deep-jigs for big grouper and amberjacks is the new Grouper Buster. Offshore anglers jigging off Port Canaveral recently have been chalking up catches of grouper to 40 ...

“Watch, you’ll see them coming up,” I said. “As soon as your bait gets down to about 30 feet, they’ll come up to get it.” Like watching live television, I stared intently at Tom Howard’s Simrad fish ...