This week’s ‘Reel Talk’ with Amanda Holly is all about targeting red grouper. Catching red grouper is one of the easier fish to target in the Tampa Bay offshore waters.

After facing early-season closures in recent years, red grouper will remain open for the remainder of the year. This is a welcome sight as they often occupy the same bottoms as red snapper, so being ...

In 2022, red grouper season came to an abrupt halt on Aug. 30. This caused grief to anglers, and particularly charter captains, who use red grouper as a meat fish to fill the box during offshore ...

“NOAA just announced that recreational red grouper will close on June 30th this year,” the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

Red grouper are in shallower water where the mutton snapper, mangrove snapper and triggerfish are. June 15, the gag grouper harvest season will come to close, but red grouper, scamp and other ...

Red grouper recreational harvest will be closed until the 2023 fishing year begins on Jan. 1. Previously: Southwest Florida Fishing Report: Smooth offshore waters allow anglers to catch their prize ...

Offshore anglers along the Gulf Coast will have new opportunities to reel in prized catches starting September 1, as several ...

Recreational season for red snapper season kicked off June 4 and will end on July 28. Gag grouper season opened on June 1 for the remainder of 2021. Both fish have a two per person bag limit with ...

CORTEZ, Fla. (WFLA) — At the Star Fish Company fish market in Cortez in Manatee County, the price for a pound of red grouper is $24.95 – which may seem a bit pricey, but could be a bargain in ...

He has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a National Marine Fisheries Service rule that deals with quotas for Gulf of Mexico red grouper fish.

Gag grouper opened in federal waters June 1 and red snapper opened June 11. Anglers are allowed to harvest two red snappers per person per day and they must be 16 inches minimum total length.

“We use local grouper whenever possible — this one is red grouper from Madeira Beach,” Lombardi notes. “Grouper is a great-tasting white, flaky fish that takes well to all types of cooking.