Just off Anna Maria Island in Tampa, Nashville Predators forward Zach L'Heureux was on the verge of catching the fish of his dreams. As an amateur angler growing up outside Montreal, L'Heureux dreamed ...

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 ...

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 ...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (SNN-TV) — Some area high school students have a big fish story to tell. According to proud dad Stuart Francis, his son Isaac and his friends caught a goliath grouper while ...

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 ...

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 ...

“You work your whole life in the ocean for a moment like this,” Tallboy Fishing Charters Captain Richard Pollitzer said after snaring an incredibly massive and rare fish. During a recent expedition in ...

Goliath grouper, which can grow as large as 800 pounds and 8 feet long, have been protected in Florida waters since 1990. That’s about to change. Saturday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The goliath grouper spawning aggregation happens annually from July through October. 8 On Your Side’s Amanda Holly went diving off the east coast of Florida to see the gathering ...

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 ...