A fleet of 90 boats registered to fish the 52nd annual Offshore Slam fishing tournament hosted by the Florida Sport Fishing Association, a recreational fishing club founded in Brevard County in 1968.

The scariest predator in the ocean is the massive great white shark. With movies like “Jaws” portraying the giant sharks as a stone-cold killer, human encounters could be terrifying. But for Captain ...

When you KNOW big grouper are waiting below, 30 minutes feels like two hours. It was halfway though a good day of fishing about 35 miles east of Charleston Harbor, and Capt. Rick Reddick's 26-foot ...

“My guys were trophy hunters,” said Captain Dion Davis, who runs a quad-engine Freeman out of Sarasota allowing him to target deepwater fish on single day trips. “They wanted to swing for the fences ...

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (WFLA) – They are calling it a record-setting catch – a 409-pound Warsaw Grouper caught off St. Pete Beach this weekend. James Taylor, a Bradenton firefighter, dock master and diver ...

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (WFLA) – They are calling it a record-setting catch – a 409-pound Warsaw Grouper caught off St. Pete Beach this weekend. James Taylor, a Bradenton firefighter, dock master and diver ...

One fisherman reeled in quite a bit more than he bargained for. Borja Campos, 26, was spear-fishing with a friend off the coast of El Hierro in the Canary Islands when he caught a grouper that weighed ...

A local fisherman and a friend from Texas are hoping that the remains of a nearly 500-pound Goliath grouper they pulled from a Cape Coral canal will help promote awareness about the negative impact of ...

Trying to catch a big goliath grouper on a rod and reel will leave you sweating and out of breath. You might even end up going for a swim. “They pull like hell,” Capt. Richard Stanczyk said. “They’ll ...

Roger Burnley was hoping the day was about to end. When he saw others on the boat crank up their baits from the Norfolk Canyon depths, he was almost sure it had. But Wes Blow quickly rebaited his ...

Tommy Thomas with a goliath grouper taken at the Marquesas in December 1978. Collection of Don DeMaria. There will be no harvesting of Goliath Grouper in Florida, for now. The Florida Fish and ...