The second annual Goliath grouper season doesn’t open until next spring — March 1 to May 31 — but if you want a license to harvest one of these big boys, you need to apply in the next two weeks. The ...

SARASOTA - When anglers targeting sweet-eating snapper instead see the hulking shape of a 400-pound goliath grouper at the end of their lines, expletives usually follow. Not in awe over the size of ...

Swimming in the ocean is an incredible experience, with astonishing surprises for even the most seasoned divers. Take the goliath grouper, for example — these enormous fish are both awe-inspiring and ...

The state is allowing for the harvest of a massive reef fish again this year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is allowing a limited take of Goliath grouper in March, and ...

A man got the catch of a lifetime -- all while in his kayak! John Black from Cape Coral caught a 552-pound Giant Goliath Grouper in his kayak while fishing in Sanibel, Florida. The fish was 83 inches ...

Goliath groupers on the wreck of the Zion about 90 feet deep off Jupiter in 2009. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission agreed in March 2022 to a limited, highly-regulated harvest of ...

Fog enveloped palmetto trees in a peaceful haze as the sun poked over the eastern tree tops on a humid spring morning in southwest Florida. A single osprey perched on the edge of its nest, defiantly ...