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December 26, 2023

Grant Will Help BTT Restore Juvenile Tarpon & Snook Habitat

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has awarded Bonefish & Tarpon Trust a $250,000 grant to restore degraded coastal habitat in Southwest Florida. The NFWF grant will provide funding for the final design and permitting […]
May 23, 2023

Catching Snook In Texas

Snook are a bit snooty. Well, at least that’s the impression I got the first time I encountered one. I was diving in the Florida’s aptly named Crystal River and had seen and photographed tarpon, manatees […]
March 24, 2021

Study Says Snook, Other Species Moving Northward

As climate change reduces the frequency and intensity of killing freezes, tropical plants and animals that once could survive in only a few parts of the U.S. mainland are expanding their ranges northward, according to a […]
September 4, 2018

Fishing Popping Corks With… Artificials?

Popping Corks It’s a fair bet that everyone reading this right now has fished with a popping cork before. You’ve probably fished one for reds, trout, snook, and other species, baited up with shrimp, cut fish, […]
July 24, 2018

Should You Use Floats in Saltwater?

Floats Are Effective There’s something very basic and slightly childish that comes to mind when we think of bobbers. Surely, many of us got our start as an angler sitting on the bank of a small […]
May 30, 2018

Snook Tricks that Work

Texas isn’t exactly known for burgeoning snook populations, but in certain places at certain times it’s a great gamefish to pursue. If, that is, you know how to get ’em. Because snook are one of those […]