Those Tricky Snook
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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.
