Anyone who fishes the Florida Keys patch reefs invariably hooks into a prized jewel: the mutton snapper. They are fantastic in the frying pan as well as hefty battlers that put up an arm-wrenching ...

South Florida's patch reefs, finger channels, flats and creeks can offer phenomenal mutton action, but you need plenty of live chum. George Poveromo Spring triggers major gatherings of spawning-class ...

It should be a decent weekend Saturday and Sunday to fish for whatever you want to target. Offshore, dolphin, mutton snapper, a few cobia and blackfin tuna have been showing up on catch reports.

Mutton snapper are a popular target on all of South Florida’s patch reefs, but the biggest muttons inhabit the deeper reefs. Nick Honachefsky Anyone who fishes the Florida Keys patch reefs invariably ...