Get to know... Red Snapper

Red Snapper is typically found throughout the Gulf of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula in waters ranging from 33 feet to 623 feet. Red snappers are caught more frequently in shallower offshore waters in the cooler months than in the warmer months depending on location.

They have a reddish pink hue and like to stay near any sort of bottom relief or obstruction such as reefs, rocks, ledges, etc. They are considered reef fish but a red snappers diet is usually a thing that lives on a muddy bottom. A Red Snapper's most important foods are pipefish, snake eel, sea robins, pinfish, striped anchovies, seas eel, and pigfish. 

 

Photo Credit: Salt Water Sportsman