Snook

Snook fishing is limited to Florida and part of Texas. Fishing for snook out of Chokoloskee, Florida, is a great trip

I was walking the bank of Snapper Creek heading out to Biscayne Bay from Old Cutler Road. Every afternoon after school, I would head there with my spinning outfit and a few white bucktail jigs. I was fishing for snook, and there were plenty of them there to be caught.

Barney the Snook

Catch a snook with barnacles. Snook sometimes grow barnacles on their tails and sides.

  Catching that one fish can be an experience, especially when you see that you are about to loose it!

   Snook season opens in Florida on September 1, and Sebastian Inlet is stacked with fish (and boats!).

A number of years ago, too many for me to ponder, we fished the banks of Snapper Creek where it entered Biscayne Bay south of Miami for snook. Mangroves and Australian pines lined the bank of what was actually a canal that was dug as part of a flood control project in the ‘50s.

We were on the east edge of the heavy water flow at Cape Sable in about 3 feet of water, and snook were breaking the surface all around us chasing small schools of mullet. This was unusual for snook; they normally don’t feed in this area on an outgoing tide. But, it was also unusual for all the mullet to be coming out of the canal. To this day we have never seen mullet there again on an outgoing tide.

Sebastian Inlet is located about half way down Florida's East Coast. It is the only inlet from the Atlantic to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway for many miles in both directions, and as such, it becomes a gathering place for both baitfish and predator fish. And on September 1, every year it also becomes a gathering place for snook fishermen.

Another of the many species of snook found in Florida.

Capt. Chris Asaro's article on catching old linesides at night. Not a much bigger thrill than hooking up to a 30 pound freight train in the dark!

Capt. Robert describes the snook and its habits.  Nice piece!

Smallest of the snook species, these rarely exceed 12 inches in length.

This group believes that a brighter future for all fisheries resources, including snook, is in the hands of organized user groups who, through organizations like the Snook Foundation.

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