Snapper

Targeting Mutton Snapper

Targeting Mutton Snapper

For fishing offshore on reefs, use light ocean tackle with live pinfish, ballyhoo chunks, or live pilchards. When targeting these fish on shallow grassy flats, light inshore spinning tackle should be used with small jigs, plugs or live crustaceans, such as live shrimp or crabs.

Cleaning and Cooking Red Snapper

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Cleaning and Cooking Red Snapper

We get alot of questions about how to clean fish and how to cook it.  As professional fishermen, we are fortunate to be able to have a large supply of fish available to us year round. 

Red Snapper are one of the finest eating fish in the ocean and are available over a broad area.  You cant always keep them, but when you can, you are in for a treat. 

Steve Rodger shows you how to clean them and gives suggestions for how he likes to cook them both grilled and fried.  Steve is an advocate of simple recipes and gives you 2-3 ideas on how to clean and cook not only Red Snapper but also any of the Snappers and many other white meat fish.

Steve uses a 7 inch Bubba Blade and goes through exactly where to make the cuts and how to remove the skin.  Fileting a Red Snapper is extremely similar to tons of other fish and all the snapper family so if you need to brush up on your fish cleaning skills, check out this video. 

You can also go to our website and see the full length episode of us catching Red Snapper in Louisiana and see exclusive web content on all the gear we used and tons of other information only available at http://www.intothebluefishing.com/


How do I catch more and bigger snappers and groupers?

How do I catch more and bigger snappers and groupers?

 

Man, we get this question all the time.  Everyone wants to catch bigger bottom fish...including us! 

Here is a great tip that you need to incorporate immediately if you are not already doing this...what is it?...

Mix sand with your chum and send your bait to the bottom inside the chum ball.  Also, simply dropping sand/chum balls to the bottom in the area you are fishing gets the chum to where the fish are.  When you just put out a chum bag, you are only getting the chum to the surface of the water and maybe a couple of feet below.  This is great for Yellowtails, but the grouper has no idea that chum is even there. 

Here is Steve in a quick video to show you how it is done


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