Snapper are caught year-round in the Port St. Joe area. Bottom fishing is popular for grouper and snapper in the offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico and there are quite a few deep sea fishing charters available to take you out for the day.
How to Catch Snapper
Snapper are found mostly offshore near reefs, wrecks and rock piles. Inshore, you will find mangrove snapper around bridges, along the mangroves and under docks, but these snapper are much smaller on average than what you will find offshore.
Snapper fishing is fairly easy if you can find them. Anglers have a lot of success fishing with shrimp, mud minnows, small pinfish and finger mullet. Most of the bites will come close to the bottom, so anglers will use a variety of bottom rigs to target snapper. The fish finder rig is one of the most popular bottom fishing rigs for snapper.
More Snapper Fishing Resources
- Visit our Snapper Fishing Home Page
- Snapper Fishing Basics
- Fishing Lures for Snapper
- Fishing Rigs for Snapper
- Live Baits for Snapper
- Snapper Fishing on Facebook
