The long wait is over. It's time to break out your snook rods and favorite bait, lure or fly. Snook season opens Sept. 1, a date some Florida east coast anglers have had circled on their calendars ...

After a frustrating night of hooking and losing a bunch of large snook, the two men designed a plug/swimbait hybrid with a strong stainless steel leader concealed inside the lure’s body on a ...

The past few years have seen some real innovation in lure design, and a lot of it makes sense for snook in Miami waters. Below, we break some of the most intriguing innovations by scenario and brand.

Using a monofilament leader with live bait is recommended because of a snook’s sandpaper-like mouth, which can easily wear through light line. — LURES: The jig is definitely the lure of choice ...

This same principle carries over to topwater lures. If you’re chasing trophy redfish, stripers, or snook, swapping treble hooks for single hooks will ensure more solid hook sets and a better ...

Redfish, snook, and striped bass all have large lateral lines that ... When you see fish blitzing at long range, a spoon is often the only lure that will cast far enough to reach them in time. When ...

Masson started about four years ago with an idea that he could design and manufacture a solid teak wood lure that would catch fish. For years he fished the inlets and rivers for snook. When ...

Although fishing was slow, the water cloudy and lures difficult to see, he managed to catch a 13-pound snook and lose a larger fish when it dodged behind a rock and snagged his line. Standing ...

Snook anglers who fish with lures can speed up the release process by making the hooks on their lures barbless. Use pliers to mash down a barb or a file to remove the barb. Without a barb to hang ...

With structure-oriented fish such as snook, stripers, trout and redfish, opt for a slower retrieve and a much tighter action. When fishing topwater lures for these fish, I'll begin by slowly and ...

Tarpon, snook, jacks, speckled trout and redfish love to find these minnows. The challenge for anglers is trying to match the hatch. Some small swim baits and flies will work. D.O.A. Lures' 1/16 ...