The Original Snapper Snatchers was founded in 2001 by a group of us who were looking for a way to celebrate our 50th birthdays. My father-in-law, “Big Snap”, offered to take me and some of my friends deep-sea fishing as a gift. I gathered long time friends that had known each other from grammar school through college and we headed off to Destin, Florida, long noted as the fishing capital of the Gulf Coast.
After a long day of fishing and quenching our thirst, we decided that we had to have a name for our group. We looked at “Fishing at Fifty” and figured it was too lame. We decided that “Still Trolling After All These Years” sounded a little too needy. Since we had caught our limit of Red Snappers on our trip our good friend Snapper Lit blurted out “we are Snapper Snatchers” and our group was born.
We soon evolved into “The Original Snapper Snatchers – Distinguished Gentlemen of the High Seas”. We wanted to be known as the Originals since we figured that with time there would be many others who would want to be included in our ranks. We are all Snapper Snatchers because we love to catch fish and in our day have snatched a lady or two. We thought we were Distinguished since several of us are sporting gray. Gentlemen – we can always hope. We threw in the High Seas because we’ve all been on some big waves and many of us enjoyed the 60’s and early 70’s immensely.
We have several purposes for our website. Above all else we want to have a good time with it and make it a place that people will want to check out to see what we have going on. We also plan to sell trademarked Snapper Snatcher merchandise in order to partially pay for our annual fishing trips as well as contributing to area charities. Along with merchandise we will provide as many of our tried and true seafood recipes as we can remember. We hope to have SnapperSnatcher Chapters wherever there is good fishing or good times.
Come in and visit
with us awhile but do plan to come back as we are just getting started and will
be constantly upgrading our site.
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