Naples Charter Fishing

The season for red snapper, one of the prized sportfish in the Gulf of Mexico, closes Aug. 15 at 12:01 a. m. …

Anglers on Florida’s Gulf Coast have a unique chance to help state biologists manage two of the most popular reef fish caught in local waters: grouper and red snapper.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute has learned much about the life history of one of Florida’s most popular inshore species, red drum, thanks to thousands of anglers who have shared catch-and-release data with researchers over the past decade. Now biologists hope to gather similar data on popular offshore species that are also caught in the Gulf of Mexico. …

Blackfin tuna may be smaller than their  bluefin and yellowfin cousins, but these football-shaped fish can hit a bait as hard as a linebacker barreling into the backfield.  Found from Cape Cod to Brazil throughout the western Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico, blackfin tuna prefer water temperatures above 68 degrees.
These voracious feeders are often found around shrimp boats, especially in the morning as the shrimpers cull their catch, but this species will show up just about any time bait is in the water. …