#Grouper Fishing

iStockphoto / Jerry Ballard Connor Cruise, son of actor Tom Cruise, caught a truly massive 301-pound Warsaw Grouper over the weekend to win the grand prize in the Sarasota Slam fishing tournament in Sarasota, Florida. The Sarasota Slam is an annual fishing tournament held at Marina Jack in

Jacksonville Jaguars offensive linemen Jawaan Taylor is a big man. He weighs around 320-pounds on a normal day. As a quick point of comparison, the average adult male weight in Europe is 156.1 pounds and the weight of an adult male in Asia is just 127.2 pounds. The USA clocks in with an average

Goliath Grouper grow to absolutely gargantuan sizes. They are a protected species that are able to pretty much grow unchecked in Florida. They show up on a bountiful reef and eat everything in sight before moving onto the next reef and they continue to do this until they weigh up to 1,000-pounds

I can envision someone sitting on a wooden barstool in a dusty dive bar in the Florida Keys trying to tell someone who they managed to land a 450-pound Goliath Grouper that pulled them overboard and stole the rod after the rod got snagged on the anchor which they discovered using a diving mask only

It has been a hot minute since I’ve been grouper fishing. Growing up in southwest Florida, my dad would take me grouper fishing a handful of times every Winter + Spring. The Gulf of Mexico stays particularly shallow in this part of Florida until you head 20+ miles offshore so it was always a fun