Mangrove snapper5/30/2023 ![]() The week before, I’d been in Texas filming a TV show on catching American red snapper and mangrove snapper. At that time, mangrove snapper were so rare in North Carolina that the state didn’t even have a state record established for that species. I was fishing one time out of Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina, filming for my TV show “ BigWater Adventures.” The biggest mangrove snapper I ever caught was there. So, I knew what a mangrove snapper looked like, and I understood what it felt like when a mangrove snapper bit a bait. We took 80 people each day out fishing, but we never caught more than a half dozen mangrove snapper for the entire season. In my early fishing days, I worked on a party boat, often called by anglers a head boat, in my home state of South Carolina. This fish is called by both names, depending on where you catch this fish and the people with whom you’re fishing. However, its real name is a gray snapper. Lucie (77).Fish in different regions often get renamed by local anglers, and because the mangrove snapper is so prevalent in the Florida mangroves, this snapper is known throughout most of the South as a mangrove snapper. Snapper are also biting at the Melody Lane Pier, reports Clint Walker at the Fishing Center of St. Mangrove snapper, a few sheepshead and the occasional black drum are biting around the bridges. ![]() The Juanita spillway is also still producing snook. Snook are also taking live baits inside the inlet during the day and artificials at night. An 18-inch flounder was caught on Wednesday in the inlet. At the inlet, whiting are biting in the surf. The mahi bite is also good, but the bigger fish are biting a little deeper below the surface, rather than up top. On the troll, there’s all the kingfish you could want at the 80-foot mark. There’s also good size muttons and plenty of triggerfish.
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