Holy crap I never thought that it would be this much fun, I never even thought about fly fishing for tarpon. But these guys go above and beyond by landing some huge tarpon with a fly rod and reel. My only complaint is I wish they would have showed more video footage of the tarpon jumping out of the water than that, other than that this has got me motivated to grab a fly rod (one that can handle giant boca grande tarpon) and hook up with one

Snook are among some of the favorite game fish for a handful of saltwater anglers, me being one of those saltwater anglers. They are my favorite kind of fish to catch, and more than that they are my favorite kind of fish to eat at the dinner table. Not too long ago, down here in Florida they put a bigger restriction on how many you can keep per day. I know now that in Florida you are only allow to keep one snook per person, and just to be able to keep the snook you must have a Florida saltwater fishing license along with a snook stamp if you plan on Florida snook fishing.

That is just fine by me as we need to conserve this species of fish as they are just wonderful. Not only can you only keep one snook a day per person, there is also a very thin line of how big and small the snook must be for you to be able to keep it, I believe it is a margin of 8 inches or so. To be exactly sure you will have to check in with the FWC, as the rules and the regulations on snook are always changing every season.

Now when it comes to snook, they are pretty easy to get on the hook in most cases, meaning that they will attack a variety of baits. If you have live bait I would use that, live shrimp and finger mullet work great. If you are using artificial bait there are many lures that are out there that work well to hook up with snook also. Jigs will also work, I like to use the Gulp shrimp bait if I am using a jig.

Where you can find snook, is mostly in warm waters. They love to hang around mangroves, and believe it or not they also love to hang around docks, especially if they have a light and it is at night time. Although they will attack just about anything, they are not always hungry, which can be very frustrating. They are very picky on when they want to eat, and it is not common to throw a live shrimp in front of one and have the snook just sit there and look at it while not hitting it.

Just remember if the snook is too big, meaning it is over the limit to where you can keep it, please release it, that snook will probably give birth to hundreds of other snook and maybe some day the regulations will change to where we can keep more in a days limit.

Now I have talked a little bit about catching and fishing for redfish in Florida, but this is by far not the only popular hot state to where you can land some redfish. Another great state where redfish are very popular, so popular that they have their own redfish grilles and resteraunts are in southern Louisiana. But I saw this video the other day and nothing looked more fun than this, if you want to take catching redfish up to another level then try fly fishing for redfish. And let me tell you that these aint no puppies these guys are reeling up on the fly rod, they hvae some size to them, even makes me think that the redfish that are in Louisiana get bigger than the ones that are in Florida.

Redfish are not among the most popular saltwater fish that there are, but they are definitly up there. The thing about redfish is that they are fairly good to eat, not the best, but by far not the worst. Since I am from Florida and have been fishing here all of my life, I will tell you what I know about redfish from my geographic area. The biggest redfish that has ever been caught weighs in at 94 pounds, so as you can see they can get very big for a type of fish that primarily likes to swim around inshore only.

Some other names they are recognized by are the channel bass, or the red drum. The scientific name for them is Sciaenops ocellatus.The coloring of redfish is that they have a bronze color to their scales and thier body, and on there tail you will find anywhere from one, two, or even more black circular spots. They have become more and more popular over the years, they are not the most popular like I said in the beginning of this article but they are enough to have their own tournements hosted to catch them. Most of these tournements are hosted in Florida, I know of one annually that is held in Punta Gorda.

Redfish are rarely found offshore, although it is not impossible. There favorite spots to hang out are along mangroves and beach surfs. You can find them just about anywhere in Florida, along the west cost from Florida to Louisiana. There is no closed season for catching redfish, but there are regulations on how many you are alowwed to keep, and in most cases there are size limits also. For more information about the rules and regulations of catching redfish you will have to check with your local wildlife conservation team depending on what state you are in.