Species Guides

They’re spooky, they’re smart, and around the summer full moon they stack on the Keys reefs. Here’s how to fool a mutton snapper — and why the moon matters.

They lie sideways on crab-trap floats like a piece of drifting trash — until you pitch a live shrimp past one. Here’s how to sight-fish Florida tripletail all summer.

Pound for pound, the jack crevalle out-pulls almost everything inshore — and they’ll eat a topwater like they hate it. Here’s how to find and fight Florida’s toughest bulldog.

Yellowtail snapper are the Keys’ most reliable summer meat fish — if you can build a chum slick and fish light. Here’s the exact setup that fills the cooler.

When the beaches and passes fill with glass minnows, Spanish mackerel turn the water to chrome. Here’s how to catch them from the pier, beach or boat — and the wire-leader trick that saves your lures.

Doormat flounder hug the bottom around docks, inlets and channel edges — and most anglers walk right past them. Here’s how to find, rig for and ice a limit of Florida flatfish.

Grouper live in the rocks and try to drag you back into them. Here’s how to win that fight — tackle, baits, depths, and 2026 seasons for gag, red, and black grouper.

They’re smart, they’re tackle-shy, and in July they swarm the reef to spawn. Here’s how to fill the cooler with Florida mangrove snapper this summer.